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University officials claim--and Faculty members agree--that the oath is "innocuous," because unlike oaths in other states, it does not require teachers to swear that they are not or never have been members of "subversive" organizations. Yet Harvard fought this oath in the 1930's arguing then, as Bowles does today, that any requirement of an affirmation on loyalty represented a politically inspired interference with the independence of the University. By its hasty actions in this case, the University has unwittingly supported a statute that singles out teachers as a group whose loyalties are particularly suspect. Harvard has acknowledged...
...father takes advantage of the subservience of his younger son, Werner, to free his older son. His first step is to make Werner swear to stay in the family home to take care of Frantz if something happens to Leni. But Johanna, Werner's wife, has seen Werner crushed by his family environment, and she is forced to help the father free Frantz; for only in that way can she free her own husband from the imprisoning commitment...
Cynics' Escape. Despite that decision, Maryland retained the God requirement in its 98-year-old constitution, as do six other states (Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, North and South Carolina). Maryland, though, was the only state requiring jurors to swear that God holds them "morally accountable," that they will be "rewarded or punished therefor either in this world or the world to come." All this gave cynics an easy escape from jury duty. But it also denied sincere nonbelievers "equal protection of the laws...
...well have declared that Maryland has done nothing legal in its courtrooms for 98 years. But even without retroactivity, the decision brought to a halt every current criminal case in the entire state. Did it also void every current indictment issued by grand juries that had been forced to swear their belief in God? On Oct. 21, the court said yes in the case of a 16-year-old Seventh-day Adventist charged with rape-thus tossing 3,000 cases back for reindictment, 1,000 of them for retrial as well...
...oath requires the afflant to swear that he is not and never has been a member of the Communist Party, that he has not during the preceding five-year period been a member of a subversive organization so designated by the Attorney General of the United States, and that he has not during the same five-year period been a member of any organization registered under the Federal Internal Security...