"I, being a citizen of this state, have not fought a duel with deadly weapons within this state nor out of it, nor have I sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, nor have I acted as second in carrying a challenge, nor aided or assisted any person thus of …

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Dick Cheney to Bob Schieffer ...somebody like myself, who stood up and took the oath of office on January 20th of '01 and raised their right hand and said we're going to protect and defend the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic...

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Constitutional Oaths and A Plea to President Obama

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." This simple thirty-five word Oath of Office is specified  …

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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as prime minister Wednesday under a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe.

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Evangelical Christians have dominated society to such an extent for so long that people no longer question the inclusion of god in public discourse.

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How could a famous stickler for grammar have bungled that 35-word passage, among the best-known words in the Constitution? Conspiracy theorists and connoisseurs of Freudian slips have surmised that it was unconscious retaliation for Senator Obama's vote against the chief justic …

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An 83-year-old South Bend man said he missed his bus home from the presidential inauguration because he was dancing.

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Vice President Biden isn't letting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts forget about his minor flub while administering the presidential oath of office on Tuesday

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An 83-year-old South Bend man said he missed his bus home from the presidential inauguration because he was dancing.

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There's been a flurry of interest in what's usually a small detail of a new presidency: the oath taking, which President Obama repeated Wednesday after Chief Justice Roberts stumbled over the words at Tuesday's inaugural ceremony. Here's a guide to the oath.

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Barack Obama has been sworn in as US president for the second time in two days, because one word was given out of order during Tuesday's ceremony. The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, John Roberts, administered the oath again at the White House.

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If you were wondering how long it would take foes of President Barack Obama to come up with a new conspiracy theory as to why he is not legitimately our new president, you needed only go four minutes into his term to have your answer.

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SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts Needs A Pocket Constitution

I was on the fence until Tuesday, but I am now convinced that Chief Justice John Roberts needs a pocket Constitution.

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WASHINGTON – After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office. Again. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the oath to Obama on Wednesday night at the White House — a rare do-over.

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President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday's inauguration.

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts was ushered into the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday night to re-administer the oath of office to President Barack Obama because the original oath on Tuesday had a word out of sequence.

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Chief Justice John Roberts is a man who has made very few public missteps in his life -- but he appears to have made one when swearing in Barack Obama. Roberts slightly flubbed the oath, which then tripped up Obama.

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Not since Princess Diana flubbed her wedding vows to Prince Charles have we been so charmed. President Barack Obama first spoke over Chief Justice Roberts during his swearing in and then he blanked out the oath requiring the Chief Justice to repeat it.

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Pizzo Elementary School, Tampa, 1:20 p.m. Fifth-graders in Pattie Bean's homeroom class stood when the audience in Washington also stood while President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took the oath of office, some raising their right hands and reciting the words.

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Comparing the 'Idiot Heir' and the 'Wicked Heir'

Every 20th of January following the quadrennial presidential elections, the United States of America holds the inauguration of its new chief executive.

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Over the past two years Barack Obama has often quoted Martin Luther King's words as he promised to "act with the fierce urgency of now". In the coming days he will begin to make such rhetoric reality.

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A New Inaugural Oath: "By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan..."

In five days, Barack Obama will swear a (mostly) Constitutional oath, and become President of the United States.

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The United States is a *Liberal* Nation - the Founding Fathers' Views of Christianity

In spite of right-wing Christian attempts to rewrite history to make Jefferson into a Christian - and to portray this nation as one founded on Christian values, little about Jefferson's philosophy resembles that of Christianity, and the founders very clearly created a secular, *l …

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As the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of how best to address what its chairman described as "the Imperial Presidency of George W.

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Vaclav Klaus Will Sign His Czech Presidential Oath With A $60,000 Pen

Prague - On Friday Vaclav Klaus will sign his second Czech presidential oath of office, this time with a limited edition pen that would carry a $60,000 price tag if it were actually for sale.

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