Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having taken the constitutional oath of office required of public officials of the State of California, I hereby formally acknowledge my acceptance of the position and salary named, and also state that I am not a member of the Communist Party or any other organization which advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence and that I have no commitments in conflict with my responsibilities with respect to impartial scholarship and free pursuit of truth. I understand that the foregoing statement is a condition of my employment and a consideration of payment of my salary...
...which was passed unanimously by the legislature, also barred allegiance by public officials, candidates, or state employees to foreign states and forbade membership in organizations advocating unlawful overthrow of the government...
...Regents declared that they would exclude from the faculty anyone "who has associated with or is a member of groups that seek to overthrow our form of representative government," and that it would ban "subversive" textbooks...
...biggest uproar of all, however, has taken place in the past year over a new piece of legislation. Passed in Albany in March, 1949, the Act is designed to bar from public schools and colleges all teachers who belong to groups advocating the violent overthrow of the Government...
...named after Benjamin F. Feinberg, former majority leader of the State Senate, who introduced the measure on March 10, 1949. The bill was supposed to enforce Section 12-a of the New York Civil Service Law, which prohibited employment in public services of persons preaching forceful overthrow of persons preaching forceful overthrow of the government...