Garcia came to America from Lima, Peru, when he was five years old.
Which brings us back to the original question about Representative Garcia and that comic book.
Legally, any text - or no text- will suffice. In 2014, Suzan LeVine took office as Ambassador of Switzerland and Liechtenstein with her hand on a Kindle e-reader displaying the text of the U.S. Officials also have the option of not taking an oath but simply affirming their pledge to support the Constitution, which is how President Franklin Pierce entered the office. Representatives Keith Ellison, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar have all taken their oaths on copies of the Muslim Qur’an. When Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office on the death of President Kennedy, no Bible could be found on the plane, so Johnson placed his hand on Kennedy’s Catholic missal. Since no Bible could be found as he was hurriedly sworn into office after the death of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt simply raised his hand. John Quincy Adams took his oath on a law book. In fact, the Bible hasn’t always been used to swear in officials. The Constitution, however, makes no reference to the Bible. By placing their hands on this book, lawmakers declare their oath is as important to the them as what they regard as the word of God. The oath is a promise made in the presence of something the oath-taker reveres. The value of oaths rests on two points: Do the oaths serve a purpose, and what makes them binding?
Today it is “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. The wording has become more elaborate over time. Congress met for the first time, its first piece of business was to require legislators to take this oath: “I,, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States.” Founding Father James Wilson said the people’s lawmakers wouldn’t need to swear loyalty to a good government and shouldn’t swear to a bad one.īut when the U.S. Some delegates regarded oaths as an objectionable remnant of British rule in their new nation. It’s why there was dissent at the Constitutional Convention around requiring oaths from lawmakers to the nation’s new Congress. The tradition dates back to ancient Rome, and was used by colonial administrators in America when it was still a British colony.
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