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The oath for senators and members of parliament has stood the same since confederation ; according to Section IX. 128 of the Constitution Act, 1867: " Every member of the Senate and the House of Commons of Canada shall before taking his Seat therein take and subscribe before the Governor General or some Person authorized by him, and every Member of a Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly of any Province shall before the Lieutenant Governor of the Province or some Person authorized by him, the Oath of Allegiance contained in the Fifth Schedule to the Act.
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To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.
The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.
An affidavit is a type of verified statement or showing, or in other words, it contains a verification, meaning it is under oath or penalty of perjury, and this serves as evidence to its veracity and is required for court proceedings.
Legal allegiance was due when an alien took an oath of allegiance required for a particular office under the Crown.
The word is used for the oath of allegiance to an emir.
After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.
Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.
In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.
Nevertheless, Andrew decided to fulfill his father's oath and made preparations for a Crusade.
Jurors were required to be under oath, which was not required for attendance at the assembly.
In 1876, the Spanish governor-general of the Philippines José Malcampo coined the term juramentado for the behavior ( from juramentar-" to take an oath "), surviving into modern Filipino languages as huramentado.
Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.
The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority (" by the lance ") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority (" by ring and staff "); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty.
*" The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people ; for you were the fewest of all people ; but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your ancestors.
Draugr also exhibit an immense and nearly insatiable appetite, as shown in the encounter of Aran and Asmund, sword brothers who made an oath that if one should die, the other would sit vigil with him for three days inside the burial mound.
He raised his sword to the light of the sun and swore an oath disclaiming responsibility for Numerian's death.
Diocletian exacted an oath of allegiance from the defeated army and departed for Italy.
On 14 July 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the Champ de Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille with the Fête de la Fédération ; Talleyrand performed a mass ; participants swore an oath of " fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king "; the King and the royal family actively participated.
As most of the Assembly still favoured a constitutional monarchy rather than a republic, the various groups reached a compromise which left Louis XVI as little more than a figurehead: he was forced to swear an oath to the constitution, and a decree declared that retracting the oath, heading an army for the purpose of making war upon the nation, or permitting anyone to do so in his name would amount to abdication.
It is called mistletoe, and it seemed too young for me to demand its oath.
When the Domain of Biscay was incorporated into the kingdom of Castile it became customary for the king of Castile to visit Guernica and swear an oath under the Tree promising to uphold the fueros or local laws of Biscay.
oath and senators
The senators must sit on oath or affirmation, unlike the lords who voted upon their honor.
Brutus ' first acts during his consulship, according to Livy, included administering an oath to the people of Rome to never again accept a king in Rome ( see above ) and replenishing the number of senators to 300 from the principal men of the equites.
All the senators subsequently took the oath except Metellus Numidicus, who went into exile.
Before taking office senators and representatives must take the oath ( or in some cases an affirmation ) stipulated by the law.
In 2005, Senator Raymond Lavigne uttered the words " and to my country, Canada ," at the end of the Oath of Allegiance, which raised questions from other senators and Lavigne was instructed to take the oath again, without the amendment.
In the Senate, Marius first declared that he would never take the oath, in which Metellus seconded him ; in the event, however, Marius and all other senators but Metellus took the oath.
During the Civil War, the United States Senate passed a rule stating that all senators would have to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union.
Unlike the Federal process, the oath necessary to participate in the impeachment sessions is specified and requires the senators to " truly and impartially " address the charge as a reminder that they are exercising more judicial functions.
oath and members
* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
Ever since Catholic Emancipation, members of parliament were required to swear the oath " on the true faith of a Christian.
After a total of three years ' probation, newly joining members would take an oath that included the commitment to practice piety towards " the Deity " ( το θειον ) and righteousness towards humanity, to maintain a pure lifestyle, to abstain from criminal and immoral activities, to transmit their rules uncorrupted and to preserve the books of the Essenes and the names of the Angels.
Eventually, in November 1790, the National Assembly began to require an oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution from all the members of the clergy.
He or she appoints a deputy, to whom members make an oath of allegiance before they take their seats.
Come June, the third estate, joined by members of the other two, declared itself to be a National Assembly and swore an oath not to dissolve until France had a constitution and created, in July, the National Constituent Assembly.
He further proposed that members of the Dáil themselves should swear the same oath.
The party is sometimes described as " Leninist " and " rigidly controlled by its central leadership ," with its estimated one million members required to spend " at least two years studying party literature under the guidance of mentors ( Murshid )" before taking " the party oath.
Under oath, each man told his name, address, social rank, family members, servants, tenants, and property to the registrar.
") Niyazov renamed the days of the week after members of his family and wrote the new Turkmen national anthem / oath himself.
* August 4 – In France, members of the Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
Consequently, in May 1074 he did penance at Nuremberg – in the presence of the papal legates – to atone for his continued friendship with the members of his council who had been banned by Gregory, took an oath of obedience, and promised his support in the work of reforming the Church.
* February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe for allegedly refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.
Compounding matters is that in the TOS episode " The Omega Glory ," Kirk states, " A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive ," and yet he seemingly violates the Prime Directive as " the only way to save my ship " in " A Taste of Armageddon " and no explanation for the Federation Ambassador trying to mediate between Eminiar VII and Vendikar ( neither of which are Federation members ) regardless of their wishes on the matter is given.
Before the members of both houses returned home on 30 March, they were required to swear an oath accepting the Act of Succession, and all the King's subjects were now required to swear to the legitimacy of the marriage and, by implication, to acceptance of the King's new powers and the break from Rome.
The members with this length of service are: Sir Gerald Kaufman, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Meacher and Dennis Skinner ( listed according to the order in which they took the oath after the 1970 election ).
On taking office the president must take the following oath, stipulated by Article 56 of the Basic Law, before the assembled members of the Bundestag and Bundesrat ( however he or she is permitted to omit the religious references if so desired ):
After the investigation new members swear four oaths: the oath of purification, the oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the oath of loyal discharge of their office are demanded by Article 60 ; the oath of loyalty to King and Statute is demanded by Article 47 of the Statute of the Kingdom, the higher Constitution of the Realm.
# That the members of the Council take an oath on the Holy Gospel that they will pursue the best interests of the public.
The oath of office taken by members of congress requires them to " defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ".
When recharging their rings, some Corps members recite an oath.
Indeed some monarchies never had a physical crown, just a heraldic representation, as in the constitutional kingdom of Belgium, where no coronation ever took place ; the royal installation is done by a solemn oath in parliament, wearing a military uniform: the King is not acknowledged as by divine right, but assumes the only hereditary public office in the service of the law ; so he in turn will swear in all members of " his " federal government.
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