Title 4 — Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States
Chapter 4 — The States
§ 101. Oath by members of legislatures and officers
Statutory text
Every member of a State legislature, and every executive and judicial officer of a State, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, take an oath in the following form, to wit: “I, A B, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.”
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
4 U. S. C., § —
Pub. L. 80–389 · 61 Stat. 641
Enacted · 4 U.S.C. § 101
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)
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Credits
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)