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Exhibition Copy	St. Louis Exhibition 2004 (ZFC0692) 34-Star United States Flag Our Policy: The Will of the People (1861-1863) This enormous flag bearing the inscription, Our Policy: The Will of the People, is an early and striking example of the flag being linked with partisan political discourse. While they are not altogether certain about it, researchers suggest that the inscription may have been a political slogan related to the Kansas Free Staters or Jayhawkers in the struggle over slavery in new states before the Civil War
Exhibition Images	Washington University 2004 Presidential Debate Poster

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Publication Copy	Mastai, Boleslaw and Marie-Louise D'Otrange, The Stars and The Stripes: The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the republic to the Present, Knopf, New York, 1973, pp.205-205. "THE FLAG IN POLITICS Political demonstrations in the United States have always been distinguished, from their equivalents in European lands, by what might easily seem redundant display of the national flag. The justification for this is that, from the start, the Stars and stripes has not merely been the national emblem but, as well, "the flag of the free," the guardian of American liberties. … a great flag of thirty-four stars bears an admirable - but still unidentified - motto to end all political mottos. [Our Policy The Will of the People] (Standing beside it [the flag], author Boleslaw Mastai." {See image in photo gallery} Druckman, Nancy, Jeffery Kohn, The American Flag: Designs for a Young Nation, New York, Abrams, 2003.P.43.
Flag Books	The Stars and The Stripes - Mastai

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