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...Supreme Court has repeatedly held that no treaty may be unconstitutional. For example, in Geofroy v. Riggs (1890) the Court said, "It would not be contended that (a treaty) extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids." In addition, the President, by his oath of office, is sworn to enforce and uphold the Constitution. This certainly pertains to treaty-making. A mere statement that treaties should be in accord with the Constitution does not, therefore, warrant a constitutional amendment...
...undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...
...helped found Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party (forerunner of the Christian Democrats). Elected to Parliament in 1919, he served briefly in Mussolini's first government, but when Mussolini began to show his iron hand, Gronchi resigned. Barred from teaching because he refused to take the Fascist oath of allegiance, he became a salesman, first of neckties, then of American-made paints, worked his way up and ended as owner of a prosperous synthetic-varnish factory...
When he was sworn in as a Federal District Judge here in April 1954, he took a civil officer's oath swearing he had never been a Communist...
While the present teachers' oath simply requires affimation of the Constitution, H. 707, one of Iannello's perennials, demands a further statement that the teacher has never been a Communist party member. The statement is superflous to the oath and its retroactive nature is surely constitution ally objectionable...