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" I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,... "
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d ... - Page 271
by United States. Congress. House - 1874
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Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885

Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." This modification extended only to the matter of qualifying for office. It did not apply...
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important ..., Volume 9; Volume 24

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1885 - 890 pages
...this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help roe God. "One of the ridiculous features of these two '•-•auzed oaths is, that it forces a...
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How We are Governed: An Explanation of the Constitution and Government of ...

Anna Laurens Dawes - United States - 1885 - 440 pages
...this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter ; so help me God." The modified oath leaves out all the first part of , ,... , the declaration, and begins...
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The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 5

Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1232 pages
...any of the salary 01 v.5s— 1 other emoluments thereof." Part of the oath was, "that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter." He remained at the academy from July 1, 1865, until June 15, 1869, when he was duly graduated therefrom....
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 112

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1885 - 844 pages
...entitled to any of the salary or other emoluments thereof." Part of the oath was, " that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter." He remained at the Academy from July 1st, 1865, until June loth, 1869, when he was duly graduated therefrom....
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. Oath of Office—United States Code, 1982 ed., vol. 1, title 5, section 3331, p. 538 (1983)....
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Our American Government: An Introductory Guide for American Citizens

DIANE Publishing Company - 1994 - 130 pages
...this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. " Representatives take the oath of office on the first day of the new Congress, immediately...
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Assassination in Khartoum: An Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Book

David A. Korn - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...this obligation freely and without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter . . . And then, the oath: So help me God. Lucille Noel had stayed behind in Washington after her husband's...
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The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 1; Volume 5

Salmon Portland Chase - Governors - 1993 - 894 pages
...in the War of the Rebellion . . . (New York, 1888; reprint, New York, 1969), 153. minister perform69 the duties of the office on which I am about to enter". There was no such clause as is commonly added "to the best of my ability." At eleven or a little after...
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The Fighting Marlows: Men who Wouldn't be Lynched

Glenn Shirley - History - 1994 - 212 pages
...this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. GEORGE MARLOW Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of January AD 1891. CHAS....
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