An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administrating certain oaths
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| An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administrating certain oaths (1 Stat. 23) was the first law passed by the United States Congress after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. It was signed by President George Washington on June 1, 1789, and parts of it still remain in the books. Parts of the statute remain in Section of the United States Code. |
An Act to regulate the Time and Manner of administrating certain Oaths.
[edit] Section 1
Be it enacted by the Senate and [House of] Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the oath or affirmation required by the sixth article of the Constitution of the United States, shall be administered in the form following, to wit: " I, A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States." The said oath or affirmation shall be administered within three days after the passing of this act, by any one member of the Senate, to the President of the Senate, and by him to all the members and to the secretary;
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