oath

Examples of oath in the following topics:

• Artistic Conventions in Painting

  • Neoclassical painting gained new momentum with the great success of Jaques-Louis David's "Oath of the Haratii" at the Paris Salon of 1785 .
  • In "Oath of the Haratii," the perspective is perpendicular to the picture plane.
  • Neoclassical painting gained new momentum with the great success of Jaques-Louis David's "Oath of the Haratii" at the Paris Salon of 1785.

• The Battle over Reconstruction

  • They took an oath of future allegiance to the Union.
  • Lincoln's plan would re-legitimize a state as soon as 10 percent of the voting population of the 1860 general election took the oath, and the state government accepted the emancipation of the slaves.
  • It required 50 percent of the voters to take the loyalty oath and allowed only those who could swear that they had never supported the Confederacy to run for office or hold federal employment.
  • It offered amnesty to almost all Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the Union.

• The Fourth Amendment

  • The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

• Article VI

  • The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

• Painting

  • Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785 .

• Two Judicial Revolutions: The Rehnquist Court and the Roberts Court

  • Roberts took the Constitutional oath of office, administered by senior Associate Justice John Paul Stevens at the White House, on September 29, 2005, almost immediately after his confirmation.
  • On October 3, he took the judicial oath provided for by the Judiciary Act of 1789, prior to the first oral arguments of the 2005 term.

• The Nomination Campaign

  • Before executing the powers of the office, a President is constitutionally required to take the presidential oath.

• Line

  • We can see numerous implied lines in Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, connecting the figures and actions of the piece by leading the eye of the viewer through the unfolding drama.

• Establishment of the National Assembly

  • On June 20, he ordered to close the hall where the National Assembly met but the Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath, by which they agreed not to separate until they had settled the constitution of France.
  • The oath was both a revolutionary act and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself.
  • The Oath signified for the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI, and the National Assembly's refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions.

• Eligibility of Congressmen

  • Holt, Sr. was elected to the Senate at the age of 29; he waited until he turned 30 (on the following June 19) to take the oath of office.
  • Holt, Sr. was elected to the Senate at the age of 29; he waited until he turned 30 (on the following June 19) to take the oath of office.
  • Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a federal or state officer who takes the requisite oath to support the Constitution, but later engages in rebellion or aids the enemies of the United States, is disqualified from becoming a representative.