George Washington sought oaths of loyalty to address this problem ... to make the first tender of the oath of allegiance to the King.” Oaths were regarded as essential to victory.

I commit this in the house of God on this sacred ground, so help me God.” The oath was taken in the name of King, as well as the 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Civil Rights-era ...

However, for members of the church it represented a conflict between loyalty to an emerging United States and an oath to the King of England sworn before the eyes of God. For some this dissidence ...

In 1951, the Oklahoma legislature passed a law requiring all state employees to take a loyalty oath in which they had to pledge that they had not belonged—within five years of taking the oath ...

However, for members of the church it represented a conflict between loyalty to an emerging United States and an oath to the King of England sworn before the eyes of God. For some this dissidence ...