allegiance

• When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition among us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance--and some of those agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German Government itself here in our own capital. —  In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918
• The United Empire Loyalists and advocates of colonial rights were now subject to a new allegiance, and punished as rebels and their property confiscated if they would not unite with the French against their English forefathers and brethren. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• It does seem to me that that Government which has the exclusive right to confer citizenship, and which is entitled to demand service and allegiance, which is supreme over that due to any State, may--nay, must--protect those citizens in those rights which are fairly conducive and appropriate and necessary to the attainment of his 'protection' as a citizen. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• The case would have been far worse but for a few patriotic men, with Peter Schuyler at their head, who understood the character of these Indians, and labored strenuously to keep them in what was called their allegiance The proud and fierce confederates had suffered greatly in the late war. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• Several have given in their allegiance, and some others are halting through a feeling of indignation at being falsely accused. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor

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