Gouvernement et politique de États-Unis d'Amérique

Drapeau National

Symbolique des drapeaux

13 bandes horizontales égales alternant le rouge (en haut et en bas) et le blanc ; un rectangle bleu dans le coin supérieur de la hampe porte 50 petites étoiles blanches à cinq branches arrangées en neuf rangées horizontales décalées de six étoiles (en haut et en bas) alternant avec des rangées de cinq étoiles ; les 50 étoiles représentent les 50 États, les 13 bandes représentent les 13 colonies originelles ; connue sous le nom de Stars and Stripes.

Date d'adoption

4 juillet 1960

Hymne National

Paroles de l'hymne national (en anglais)

The Star Spangled Banner (The Defense of Fort McHenry) September 20, 1814 By Francis Scott Key Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!