Saturday, July 4, 2020

Delaware Revolutionary Order Heritage Flags

Delaware is the 1st state and 12th state.  It depends on who you ask.  As far as Constitutional order is concerned, Delaware is the 1st.  But when you consider the first government, the Articles of Confederation, Delaware is 12th.  Too bad she wasn't 13th; it would have made a fun fact as for being first and last.

In honor of those orders, three flags were made to convey Delaware's positions.  Since the community operating systems of the Articles of Confederation came first, they are represented by gold stars.  Thus a flag with 12 golden stars represents Delaware.

But when you take the view of the Constitution, Delaware gets the coveted a single white "silver" star.  This Delaware flag kinda' looks like the flag of Liberia, but note Delaware's Constitutional Rank flag has 13 stripes, while Liberia's flag has 11 stripes.
 
Finally when you put both placement positions together, we have a single white star with 12 gold stars in a circle.

Thus all three flags all represent Delaware.  Also the hour dedicated to Delaware starts at 12:01 PM.  

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