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  2. Oath of office - Wikipedia

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    Lyndon B. Johnson taking the American presidential oath of office in 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before assuming the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations.

  3. Oath - Wikipedia

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    Walter Burkert has shown that since Lycurgus of Athens (d. 324 BCE), who held that "it is the oath which holds democracy together", religion, morality and political organization had been linked by the oath, and the oath and its prerequisite altar had become the basis of both civil and criminal, as well as international law.

  4. Affirmation (law) - Wikipedia

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    The original 1787 text of the Constitution of the United States makes three references to an "oath or affirmation": In Article I, senators must take a special oath or affirmation to convene as a tribunal for impeachment; in Article II, the president is required to take a specified oath or affirmation before entering office; and in Article VI, all state and federal officials must take an oath ...

  5. Question looms: When cities meet to swear in officials and ...

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    They planned to swear in elected officials, following last week’s election. But there’s a hiccup in those rituals, caused by a recent change in state law.

  6. Oaths and pledges have been routine for political officials ...

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    “Any time a statewide official is sworn in, we swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri,” he told reporters after an abortion-related court ...

  7. Harris to Swear-In Senators Who Refuse to Say Her Name Right

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    Harris will swear in him too, along with Sen. Ted Cruz, who spent months saying Harris and her allies were coordinating asylum seekers to flood the country with future voters. (For the record ...

  8. Oath of office of the vice president of the United States

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    The 1st Congress passed an oath act in May 1789, authorizing only U.S. senators to administer the oath to the vice president (who serves as the president of the Senate). ). Later that year, legislation passed that allowed courts to administer all oaths and affirma

  9. Why Prince Harry Didn't Swear Loyalty to King Charles and ...

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    This is similar (though slightly less verbose) to the pledge Prince Philip made to Queen Elizabeth when she was crowned: “I, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, do become your liege man of life and limb ...