Frankpledge, earlier known as frith-borh (literally "peace-pledge"Smith (1857:230) notes: "The Anglo-Saxon term for the "view of frank-pledge" is "frith-borh" - literally "peace-pledge." The term "frith" became, by a very natural blunder, corrupted into "free;" and so (in the Norman French) the compound word was converted into Frank-pledge.
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And back then, Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, one of the half-dozen Republicans who hadn't signed the pledge, took direct aim at Norquist from the House floor.
CNN: Norquist's no-tax pledge has survived challenges before