Oaths Quotes

The Fascist Dictator hinted at all the Church property that the State might seize and began to place taxes on the Church and in a brilliant political stroke actually negotiated the Lateran Pacts of 1929 with the Church whereby the Dictator would guarantee all the churches property and protect its officials end exempt the church from taxation and all the Church had to do was have all their Italian Bishops swear to this oath of political support for the dictatorial fascist state and its outrages and aggression and denial of rights. He actually have the church more religious power than they had enjoyed in Italy for years. For example he turned over the public school curriculum to the church with no other religion considered. Despite thus oath of the Italian bishops, there were a number of individual Catholic priests who aided the anti-Fascist resistance, but for the most part Mussolini bought the political and moral support of the Catholic Church. Apologists for the Church at the time point out that the entire Vatican and the Pope was totally within the dictator’s span of control, and he could jail any of the Holy see who criticized him or have them executed as he did so many others. He could also loot the Vatican and sell off holy relics and other object to finance his wars of aggression and his alliance with Hitler. They argue that there was nothing any priests could say that would break the iron hold Mussolini had on Italy and at least, the priests could perform their pastoral functions so long as they supported the Fascists. The debate continues to this day. However, after WWII Italians left the Catholic Church in droves and it is one of the least religious states in Europe.

The Congress formed a Joint Committee to design the first Inauguration Oath Ceremony.

In contrast to so many of the world’s leaders of newly independent countries who would rarely relinquish power, O’Higgins, Bolivar and other South Amiercan early liberators were idealists who were uncomfortable with power and were disappointed at the factions and warlords and were anxious to leave office.

The members of the Ribbon Society were referred to as Ribbonists and they saw themselves as a counterweight to the Orange Order of the extremist Protestants. The Protestants were the “Hereticks”—this was the spelling of the time.

The Posse Comitatus credo called for the execution of tax collectors. See {583355}.

In his Senate confirmation hearings Frankfurter was repeatedly asked about his association with the ACLU and his views on Communism by conservative Senator Pat McCarran:

Houston was deposed on March 18, 1861, because he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederate States

Referring to the 1989 National Endowment for the Arts censorship regulations requiring grantees to sign an agreement regarding the content of their work:

See related quote to consider other’s view of the Greeks at the time. The Crusades were going badly for the Christians at this point. The Greek Emperor had, after promising to be a part of the Christian alliance, made a separate treaty with Saladin and the Muslims, making him an outcast and sewing the seeds of the schism between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches.

it is ironic that the witnesses swear to tell the entire truth but the prosecutors, attorneys, and judges are not so bound. Most in actuality often do not reveal aspects of the truth that might undermine their case or with judges, the personal view of judicial administration. Often judges do not tell defendants in criminal trials all their options about protesting the judges actions in the trial for example.

Thus was Norway formed into a single kingdom. He married another woman, Asa, and several years later after he had unified Norway, Gyda too became his wife.

For the required Oath, see {623308} . There were several to the amnesty. These included graduates of West Point and the Naval Academy who had joined the rebellion, senior officers and officials of the Confederacy, those who were accused of war crimes and abusing Union prisoners of war, persons who went abroad to help the Confederacy, and Northerners who had gone South to aid the rebellion. Many scholars think that although Lincoln had expressed his desire to provide an amnesty after the war was over, he probably would have been more lenient than Johnson who exempted many on the Southern side—especially the leaders. Ironically, Johnson was a Southerner but was personally, morally outraged at taking up arms against the United States and in that sense was much more of a hawk than Lincoln and many of the radical Republicans even. However, he was an inveterate racist and resisted most of the attempts to implement equality during the Reconstruction. Many argue that but for Johnson, Reconstruction might have been much more successful. It was easy for Southerners to resist equal rights for Blacks when they knew that the President was also opposed to measures to produce equality.

Holland was then a Republic and federation of the separate states. Each elected representatives to the ruling legislature, however, many states had not been pleased that their representatives did not reflect the desires and public opinion in the individual states and in some cases took bribes to vote in favor of special interests. The Dutch did NOT want their representatives to use their own judgment but wanted them to seek and follow the instructions of the legislatures of each state.

The Chief Justice at the time was an ultra-conservative judge, who together with his 8 colleagues—all conservative—had blocked much of the democratic and progressive legislation that the Congress had passed. FDR had a much different legal and philosophical view of the Constitution than the Chief Justice, and the court would declare much of his New Deal legislation, passed in the emergency of the Great Depression, unconstitutional. Almost all of those “unconstitutional” things were years later passed again and this time a more modern court found they were Constitutional.

Judge Moore was trying to justify oaths to God or other state references to a Judeo-Christian God as not violating the 1st Amendment stricture about the government endorsing a particular religion. Note however his {33827} quotation.

When the first Southern States seceded, each appointed a whose job it was to persuade the other Southern States to also secede. In this case Hale was marketing secession to Kentucky which with Maryland were the only two Southern States to reject what they regarded as treason and rebellion. The importance of the quotation however is in his argument which was all based on enmity to racial equality and abolition. Later Southern apologists would argue that the Civil War was fought, not about slavery and racism butt about different philosophies of government. See {623715} .

There is a school of thought that since Jesus Christ preached care for the poor and have-nots that he was a socialist. Others believe that this is simply a commonality between some of the teachings of Christ and some aspects of socialism. The irony is that Chavez’s brand of socialism and polarization of society was in very large part contrary to Christ’s teachings, though there have been few governments that had ever met Christ’s standards of morality including and especially Christian, church-dominated government’s and theocracies.