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Code · U.S. Code · Title 4 - FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES · CHAPTER 4— THE STATES · § 101

§ 101. Oath by members of legislatures and officers

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Every member of a State legislature, and every executive and judicial officer of a State, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, take an oath in the following form, to wit: “I, A B, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.”
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)
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§ 101
Oath by members of legislatures and officers
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ActJuly 30, 1947, ch. 389
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