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title: "4 U.S.C. § 101"
description: "Oath by members of legislatures and officers"
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title_name: "FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES"
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citation: "4 U.S.C. § 101"
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# 4 U.S.C. § 101 - Oath by members of legislatures and officers

## Text

Every member of a State legislature, and every executive and judicial officer of a State, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, take an oath in the following form, to wit: “I, A B, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.”

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)