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A lot of people don't know this, but there's actually no laws or rules about how you have to arrange stars on the flag, other than that they have to be white on
by friend_and_foe 4y ago
A lot of people don't know this, but there's actually no laws or rules about how you have to arrange stars on the flag, other than that they have to be white on a blue field. You can have a flag with one big star in the middle and 49 tiny stars around it, and it is valid as the US flag, you can have a mess of them, they can be upside down or sideways. I don't just mean the government can decide, I mean that you can make a flag like this and fly it and it is the US flag.
Convention dictates though that all stars be of the same size, symbolism for the states all being equally co-sovereign over the union, and the arrangement revealed after a new state joins the union is usually what gets manufactured and becomes the not so official "official" flag.
- chrisshroba 4y agoI believe you, but do you have a source so I can read more?
- macintux 4y agoNot the OP, but this looks like the definitive resource. Still skimming it myself out of curiosity. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title4/pdf/USCODE-2011-title4-chap1.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title4/pdf/U...
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- pinkmuffinere 4y agoThanks for finding this! If I'm reading this correctly, I think the skip-parent comment is incorrect? Part I sec 2 says "The positions of the stars in the union of the flag and in the union jack shall be as indicated on the attachment to this order, which is hereby made a part of this order", and I think the attachment is the "Standard proportions" diagram at the top of page 3.
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