Posted on 05/23/2006 7:04:23 PM PDT by Libloather
Presidential - "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pioaths.html
Senate - "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that 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; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm
House - "I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that 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; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
http://clerk.house.gov/members/oathoffice.html
The wordings of the current oath of enlistment and oath for commissioned officers are as follows:
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that 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; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/faq/oaths.htm
An oath only works with honorable men. No honor means no meaning in an oath.
They do, according to another FReeper who quoted chapter, paragraph and verse last week.
To wit:
'You have the right to remain silent . . . '
(Sorry, forgot who said it.)
Read the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments and note the uses of the words "Citizen" and "Person."
The people are granted Constitutional Rights not just Citizens.
Sum'B!tch, Doogle!! Thank you for your service!! (I just read your tagline and am responding to that.)
>The people are granted Constitutional Rights not just
>Citizens.
So are there any "people" in the world that *don't* have the rights of "citizens" in this country called the United States of America? Or did I mis-understand you?
All people within the territory of the U.S. are protected by the Constitution.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
No doubt there is a growing emotional ground swell to deny non-citizens the protections of the Constitution, but, the organic document that governs every person within our borders--lawfully or otherwise, says what it says thus, absent a totally amended constitution, the matter is really not open to legal challenge.
People refers to LEGAL residents and citizens. LEGAL residents have the same rights as citizens, ILLEGALS don't. If the constitution applied to ILLEGAL ALIENS then every person in the world, regardless of where they were physically located, would have rights under the American constitution.
Only an outright scatter brain can interpret the constitution to mean non residents have rights, which is what an ILLEGAL ALIEN is. Until they have been granted legal resident status they are NON residents and have no rights under our constitution. grow up and stop trying to push your ILLEGAL ALIEN agenda.
Better than the oath of office in Article II, Section 3, which requires that the President "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." If the dolts that run the Left had a lick of sense, the Bush administration's failure to enforce the immigration laws would be enough for impeachment both legally and politically. Of course, Republicans are the true dolts because the Democrats prefer to let Bush stay in office and keep the borders open so as to let millions of future Democrats stream into the country with his aquiescence.
No.
You are right.
But how this translates into taxpayers being an eternal resource to be tapped into for handouts is beyond me.
Are you saying that when an Illegal Alien in arrested they DO NOT have their 4th, 5th or 6th Amendment Rights?
I think there are many who would say that, which is very disappointing.
Once you're willing to throw away the rights of others, you have already begun to lose your own.
It's very simple - if you don't like the law, amend the Constitution. Don't try and redefine its meaning with lawyerly tongues. That's a Lib tactic, and beneath any conservative.
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