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Yeah and the Constitution is just a piece of paper, physically speaking. But it's also the embodiment of an idea and ideal of what our society should be.
In political terms, a red rose represents the Labour Party and all it stands for.
In religious terms, the cross is just two sticks of wood perpendicular to each other. But Christianity has suffused it with meaning, to the point where it is a direct symbol for Christianity itself.
A symbol is
>a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
Symbols occur throughout human history. There are whole books about it.
They don't necessarily have to be super significant, either. For example, using an anvil to represent a blacksmith. Happened in medieval times. Or two stick figures to represent a bathroom. Or using the letter M in a certain manner to represent a fast-food company. Humans use symbols all over the place.
So yeah, the US flag is just a piece of fabric. But it's also a symbol.
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