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To: FITZ; everyone
Fitz wrote:

It would be better in the first place if we didn't bring in immigrants whose beliefs are incompatible with the Constitution.

Yep, all immigrants should be made aware that our citizenship oath requires us to honor & defend our constitution, which is the supreme 'Law of the Land'.
Therefore; -- our Constitutional oath must be acknowledged as taking legal precedence over religious belief.

After all, as the article says:

  "-- As Justice Robert Jackson famously remarked, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Neither is a nation a suicide pact."

As we must re-learn, over & over again, in every generation, -- the first necessity of a political society is an agreement on the basic principles underlying our laws and constitutions.  

71 posted on 05/27/2004 6:37:53 AM PDT by tpaine ("The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." -- Solzhenitsyn)
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To: yall

The Oath of Citizenship

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;
that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law;
that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law;
and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.
In acknowledgement whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.


[In some cases, INS allows the oath to be taken without the clauses:
"… that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform non-combatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by law…"]


72 posted on 05/27/2004 7:34:20 AM PDT by tpaine ("The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." -- Solzhenitsyn)
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