A loyalty oath is a pledge of allegiance to an organization, institution, or state of which an individual is a member. In the United States, such an oath...

An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to a monarch or a country. In modern...

The oath pledged personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler rather than loyalty to the Weimar Constitution of the country. Historians view the personal oath of the...

or one's declared home nation by oath (naturalization). The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition defines loyalty as "allegiance to the sovereign or...

Some oaths of office are statements of allegiance and loyalty to a constitution or other legal text or to a person or office-holder (e.g., an oath to support...

swears loyalty to monarch or country. Oath of citizenship, an oath taken by immigrants that officially naturalizes immigrants into citizens. Oath of office...

two-thirds of US states have adopted loyalty oaths for teachers. The Massachusetts Teachers' Oath was a loyalty oath required to teach in Massachusetts...

administration began to require faculty to sign a two-part political loyalty oath: one part required faculty to declare they were not Communists, and did...

refused to sign a loyalty oath as required by a California law enacted in 1954. The court reversed a lower court ruling that the loyalty oath provision did...

swear oaths to Adolf Hitler by name, rather than to the German state or an officeholder. Such oaths were intended to increase personal loyalty to Hitler...

surges in American patriotic oaths and pledges to the flag after the Civil War, when tensions surrounding political loyalties persisted, and in the 1880s...

usually done in a ceremonial capacity. An oath of citizenship is designed to be a statement of patriotism and loyalty to the new country. In countries which...

were expelled, both those captured in arms and those who had sworn the loyalty oath to the king. Natives likewise were driven off the land to make way for...

a state law, the Levering Act, requiring public employees to sign a loyalty oath, and more than 11,000 University of California employees signed rather...

Caselaw, Findlaw. Fried 1997, p. 211. Paddock, Richard C. (May 11, 2008), "Loyalty oath poses ethical dilemmas", San Francisco Chronicle Izumi, Masumi (May 2005)...

an oath of future loyalty to the Union. Congress considered this too lenient; its own plan, requiring a majority of voters to take the loyalty oath, passed...

of California in 1950. It required state employees to subscribe to a loyalty oath that specifically disavowed radical beliefs. It was aimed in particular...

required oath to serve anything other than the Constitution is invalid. In the case of Ex parte Garland, the Court overturned a loyalty oath that the...

affirmative action; that it violates the First Amendment; or functions as a loyalty oath. A 1,500-person survey conducted by FIRE reported that the issue is highly...

which the Court reversed the conviction of a labor leader under federal loyalty laws because the defendant was not given permission to view the evidence...

Catholic priest to take the Obligatory Oath. However, almost all bishops opposed the law and refused to take the loyalty oath it required. Over half of lower...

first Supplemental Reconstruction Act (March 23, 1867) required an oath of past loyalty for any man in the South to vote. The local registrar had to swear...

Flahaut de la Billaderie, commissioned Oath of the Horatii with the intention that it be an allegory about loyalty to the state and therefore to the king...

into depriving Major Major of food as a consequence of not signing a loyalty oath that Major Major was never given an opportunity to sign in the first...

Britell, Tim Fain & Rob Moose Soldier's Joy - Traditional July 1863 / Loyalty Oath - Composed by Nicholas Britell Perfect Charity - Composed by Nicholas...

"Netanyahu wants loyalty oath bill to include Jews as well". Ha'aretz. Somfalvi, Attila (10 October 2010). "Government approves loyalty oath bill – Israel...

Countrywide Financial Corporation's Loyalty oath bracelet. In 2007, the consequence of not signing a loyalty oath was "lose my job"....

certificates have survived. Decius' edict was intended to act as an Empire-wide loyalty oath to the new emperor (who had come to power in 249 AD), sanctified through...

around the base. He also rapidly put an end to Captain Black's "Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade" by demanding “gimme eat” then demanding that they “give everybody...

University of California to implement loyalty oaths on its faculty when he introduced legislation requiring such oaths. In 1949, as the head of the Un-American...