Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university has not found it necessary to discard any teachers or any textbooks under the Regents' policy, and no loyalty oath has been imposed on the Nebraska faculty...
...Jersey's loyalty oath law is still awaiting final court tests of its validity, especially with respect to teachers...
...requires candidates for public office, elected officials, and state employees to swear allegiance to the United States. A candidate who refuses to take the oath may run for office, but the words "refused oath of allegiance" must appear next to his name...
...decision by the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court on October 19, 1949, held: "That the part of the law requiring oaths of candidates for public office was in violation of the New Jersey Constitution on the grounds that the Constitution provides a specific form of oath for elected officials." That for the Legislature to require an additional oath is in effect to alter the Constitutional oath and is therefore illegal...
However, one of the three judges on the appellate body told reporters that the court's decision did not affect the validity of the loyalty oath law as far as teachers and other state employees were concerned...