Eschewing Obfuscation and Pledging Allegiance to Hapax Legomenons

Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? So does our Pledge of Allegiance, so much so that, according to linguist Geoff Nunberg, we've forgotten its origin and meaning:

People don't pledge allegiance to Hadassah or the U.S. Marines or Kappa Kappa Gamma, much less to other inanimate objects. We only use the words when we're either quoting the flag pledge or riffing on it. So there's no independent reference point, no way to know what you've just signed on for that you weren't down for already.