Word: sworn
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...security of all rights entrusted by the Constitution to its care." Despite his hints that the marshals would be jailed if they violated state law, Governor Patterson clearly had no authority to interfere with the forces of federal intervention. By their oath of office, state and city authorities are sworn to uphold federal as well as local law. And since In Re Neagle (1890)-in which the Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of a deputy marshal who killed a man while guarding a federal judge-U.S. Government officers have been held exempt from local law whenever the violation...
...last week. Thousands of miles away, the U.S. was commemorating a different kind of day-Law Day-in 100,000 peaceful ceremonies. On Chicago's lakefront, 959 aliens held their right arms high to pledge allegiance to a system of justice under the law, and were sworn in as new citizens. From Portland. Ore., to Hillsboro, Texas, high school students acted as jurors in mock trials. Atlanta ministers delivered sermons. Seattle TV stations presented programs, San Diego lawyers met with foreign-exchange students-all to explain the meaning of law and the vital need for its rule...
...boss of the U.S. Office of Education had barely been sworn in last week when he ventured an opinion about U.S. schools. "Soft," "flabby," "lax," "easy," exclaimed Commissioner Sterling M. McMurrin, 47. "We have much less knowledge, much less creativity, much less moral fiber than we would have had if our educational process had been more rigorous." McMurrin set his goal as "quality and rigor in teaching"-strong talk for the Office of Education, which for most of its 94 years has been a tame source of statistics rather than of standards...
...Monday evening Pierre Salinger told the Women's National Democratic Club that there is "nothing more vital in government than the freest possible flow of information." Two days later it was revealed that the newly-sworn director of the United States Information Agency had attempted (unsuccessfully) to suppress the showing in Britain of a controversial television documentary on the plight of migrant laborers in this country...
...discussion of whether President Kennedy put his hand on the Bible when he took the oath: Apparently Rutherford B. Hayes and Calvin Coolidge were sworn in as President without putting their hands on the Bible, as shown in Lorant's The Presidency...