 | North Carolina. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 638 pages
...faithfully execute the duties appertaining to the office of Governor of the State of North-Carolina ; and that he will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution, of this State and the Constitution of the United States. SEC. 5. The Governor shall reside at the seat... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 452 pages
...the United States. The President shall, before he enter on the execution -of his office, take an oath that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" 2 1 The President is the only officer required to take this oath, n. 174. CONSTITUTION.... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 774 pages
...to take an oath that he will " faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." These oaths are public laws defining duties, and a violation of them is an impeachable... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 1170 pages
...to take an oath that he will " faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." These oaths are public laws defining duties, and a violation of them is an impeachable... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - Constitutional law - 1869 - 596 pages
...or affirm, 1. That he will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States ; and, 2. That he will to the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. «59. There is little need of comment on this clause. No man can well doubt the... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 350 pages
...or affirm, 1. That he will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States ; and, 2. That he will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. 59. ART. VI. — HOW REMOVABLE. He shall be removed from office on impeachment... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...or affirm, 1. That he will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States; and 2. That he will to the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. (59) There is little need of comment on this clause. No man can well doubt the... | |
 | Amos Kendall - Kentucky - 1872 - 734 pages
...officers, and the President himself, from the obligations of their oaths ! Though the President swears that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect, and defend tlie Constitution of the United States," secessiomsm undertakes to release him from his oath within... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 676 pages
...Abraham Lincoln to carry out their policy. And on the day that he took his official oath that he would, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, he, in his Inaugural Address, foreshadowed that the policy of his administration... | |
 | Amos Kendall - Kentucky - 1872 - 746 pages
...of the United States, to the effect that he would "faithfully execute the office of President. and to the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the ['nittd States." It required him to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" ; and,... | |
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States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States... 
