Tag: Oath
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Oaths
Congress may require no other oath of fidelity to the Constitution, but it may add to this oath such other oath of office as its wisdom may require.1 It may not, however, prescribe a test oath as a qualification for holding office, such an act being …
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State Officers
Commenting in The Federalist on the requirement that state officers, as well as members of the state legislatures, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution, Hamilton wrote: "Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members, will be incorporated …
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Oath of Office
Presidential Oath of OfficeWhat is the time relationship between a President's assumption of office and his taking the oath? Apparently, the former comes first, this answer appearing to be the assumption of the language of the clause. The Second Congress assumed that President Washington took of…