A loyalty oath is a pledge of allegiance to an organization, institution, or state of which an individual is a member. In the United States, such an oath...
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An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to a monarch or a country. In modern...
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1945. The oath pledged personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler in place of loyalty to the constitution of the country. Historians view the personal oath of the...
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one's declared home nation by oath (naturalization). Classical tragedy is often based on a conflict arising from dual loyalty. Euthyphro, one of Plato's...
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two-thirds of US states have adopted loyalty oaths for teachers. The Massachusetts Teachers' Oath was a loyalty oath required to teach in Massachusetts...
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swears loyalty to monarch or country. Oath of citizenship, an oath taken by immigrants that officially naturalizes immigrants into citizens. Oath of office...
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Some oaths of office are statements of allegiance and loyalty to a constitution or other legal text or to a person or office-holder (e.g., an oath to support...
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Levering Act (redirect from Levering Oath Law)
of California in 1950. It required state employees to subscribe to a loyalty oath that specifically disavowed radical beliefs. It was aimed in particular...
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administration began to require faculty to sign a two-part political loyalty oath: one part required faculty to declare they were not Communists, and did...
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swear oaths to Adolf Hitler by name, rather than to the German state or an officeholder. Such oaths were intended to increase personal loyalty to Hitler...
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an oath of future loyalty to the Union. Congress considered this too lenient; its own plan, requiring a majority of voters to take the loyalty oath, passed...
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Charles Muscatine (section Loyalty oath controversy)
a state law, the Levering Act, requiring public employees to sign a loyalty oath, and more than 11,000 University of California employees signed rather...
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refused to sign a loyalty oath as required by a California law enacted in 1954. The court reversed a lower court ruling that the loyalty oath provision did...
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which the Court reversed the conviction of a labor leader under federal loyalty laws because the defendant was not given permission to view the evidence...
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were expelled, both those captured in arms and those who had sworn the loyalty oath to the king. Natives likewise were driven off the land to make way for...
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into depriving Major Major of food as a consequence of not signing a loyalty oath that Major Major was never given an opportunity to sign in the first...
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could be required to swear loyalty to the president, in conflict with their constitutional obligation to swear a loyalty oath to the U.S. Constitution....
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McCarthyism (section Loyalty-security reviews)
Findlaw. Fried (1997), p. 211. Paddock, Richard C. (May 11, 2008), "Loyalty oath poses ethical dilemmas" Archived July 7, 2012, at archive.today, San...
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usually done in a ceremonial capacity. An oath of citizenship is designed to be a statement of patriotism and loyalty to the new country. In countries which...
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Pledge of Allegiance (category Oaths of allegiance)
surges in American patriotic oaths and pledges to the flag after the Civil War, when tensions surrounding political loyalties persisted, and in the 1880s...
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affirmative action; that it violates the First Amendment; or functions as a loyalty oath. A 1500-person survey conducted by FIRE reported that the issue is highly...
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of the early 1950s, because he refused to sign a loyalty oath — not because of any lack of felt loyalty to the United States but because it infringed on...
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of the Tullycaulter of Tullykelter) did not take the Oath of Allegiance, a type of loyalty oath for his position. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Volume...
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Racism in Israel (section Proposed oath of allegiance)
"Netanyahu wants loyalty oath bill to include Jews as well". Ha'aretz. Somfalvi, Attila (10 October 2010). "Government approves loyalty oath bill – Israel...
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy (category Religious oaths)
Catholic priest to take the Obligatory Oath. However, almost all bishops opposed the law and refused to take the loyalty oath it required. Over half of lower...
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Countrywide Financial Corporation's Loyalty oath bracelet. In 2007, the consequence of not signing a loyalty oath was "lose my job"....
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first Supplemental Reconstruction Act (March 23, 1867) required an oath of past loyalty in order for any man in the South to vote. The local registrar had...
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Flahaut de la Billaderie, commissioned Oath of the Horatii with the intention that it be an allegory about loyalty to the state and therefore to the king...
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No Religious Test Clause (section Forced oaths)
required oath to serve anything other than the Constitution is invalid. In the case of Ex parte Garland, the Court overturned a loyalty oath that the...
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The Oath of the Peach Garden is a fictional event in the 14th century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. This event...
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