 | United States. Congress. House - 1861 - 272 strani
...to take an oath that he "will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." The duties of the office comprehend all the executive power of the nation, which... | |
 | William M. Kennedy - 1862 - 34 strani
...exercised by, the President. ..That the President shall be sworn faithfully to execute his office, and to the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, the symbol of the public safety; and that he shall be the sole and exclusive judge of the facts of... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 690 strani
...to take an oath that he "will faithfully execute the office of President of the United Si.it. i, and will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of tho United States." The duties of the office comprehend all the executive power of tho nation, which... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1865 - 680 strani
...to take an oath that he "will fiûtht'ully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Tho duties of the office comprehend all the executive power of the nation, which... | |
 | Samuel Smith Nicholas - 1865 - 232 strani
...distrust, was required to be very emphatic in his official oath. He was required to swear that he would, "to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution." These oaths admit no evasion, no mental reservation or equivocation, but require implicit obedience.... | |
 | John Minor Botts - 1866 - 416 strani
...it does not leave it to the discretion of the President, but requires him to take an oath before God that he will, " to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution!" and that Constitution declares that the President "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed,"... | |
 | John Minor Botts - 1866 - 426 strani
...not leave it to the discrction of the President, but require* him to take an oath before God that ho will, " to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution!" and that Constitution deelares that the President "shall take eare that the laws be faithfully executed,"... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - 1866 - 492 strani
...President swears, " That he will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." The State officers swear that they will support the Constitution of the United... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - 1867 - 466 strani
...him only, that he should, in addition to the oath of office, before he enter upon its duties, swear " that he will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Is it not surprising that under a Constitution so constructed, exhibiting on... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 448 strani
...the United States. The President shall, before he enter on the execution of his office, take an oath that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States " 2 1 The President is the only officer required to take this oath, n. 174. CONST... | |
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States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States... 
