The state of the union is a address, and the USA flag is a symbol that stands to the Republic which is one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. According to a pledge of alliance. The first version was written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union army officer in the Civil War, and has been revised several times through the years. I thought we were a union, because according to the printed news papers during the civil war claimed the Confederacy lost .... If this was so, state governments shouldn't exist because that is the most Confederacy practice of all, and now that the federal governments have changed laws that states can make, we might as well just allow the states to bring back slavery because the feds really have no say according to the supreme court accusations that allows states to set laws on the human existence and medical procedure.