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I just don't think that this term will translate well. Our processes are just different and there really isn't a legal status that corresponds to your pledge period that people are going to be able and/or willing to discuss.
Might as well call it pledging.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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