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Re: An armed society...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:03:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> The Bill of Rights is supposed to represent ideas that are fundamental to
> this free society -- the Constitution would never have been ratified without
> it. Those basic rights are considered guarantees of current and future
> liberty. Every officer in the land swears an oath or avers to uphold the
> federal constitution. So yeah, they have to agree. If there are any
> exceptions to this oath-taking, which I doubt there are, I have never heard
> of them.
Well, the original Presidential Oath of Office, according to the
Constitution, is:
I do solemnly swear/affirm that I will faithfully execute the Office of the
President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend, the constitution of the United States.
George Washington added the words "so help me God" which some would argue
(and I think you might be one of them!) that this puts God in the copilot's
seat of an officer who's supposed primarily to serve a deliberately secular
nation.
Dave!
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| (...) Well, there is stuff that is covered by the federal government to make trade and travel amongst the many states more or less an easy thing -- one of the true limited purposes of the U.S. federal govt. I have no problems with any of that. But (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) !
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