There are so many traditions on Inauguration Day, but only one is required by law, and that is saying the Oath of Office. Taking the Oath with your hand on a book According to the U.S. Department of ...

In this sense, the Oaths Clause is the completion of the Supremacy Clause. Stated more precisely, the Oaths Clause, along with the president’s oath of office prescribed in Article II ...

Five of the Oath Keepers who had sentences commuted by the president -- including Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy -- were military veterans.

President Donald Trump took his oath of office on his inauguration, becoming the 47th president of the United States. However, some on social media have wondered if Trump failed to correctly take his ...

Harvard’s oath is just one example of how today’s medical schools and students update and personalize a historical tradition while making their vows as doctors in training more relevant to ...

But in one place the drafters of the Constitution wrote word for word what governance would look like under the newly constituted United States: the president’s oath of office. “I do solemnly ...

Presidents can choose another book, for example, John Quincy Adams swore the Oath of Office with his hand on a law book. When Donald Trump took the Oath of Office for the second time to become the ...