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> The dude is comparing it to Soviet loyalty pledges That's ripe since the State of California has required since around 1950 that its employees - including un
by eesmith 3y ago
> The dude is comparing it to Soviet loyalty pledges
That's ripe since the State of California has required since around 1950 that its employees - including university professors - sign an oath of allegiance.
"I, ________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter."
This has long been found constitutional.
- fortran77 3y agoWhen I got a part time job teaching at a local community college, I was presented with this oath to sign. (This was pre-Internet). I told them that I had never read the CA State constitution. I signed it anyway, and then went to the library to find it and read it. It's 100+ pages long. I can be pretty sore that the majorty of people who signed this oath never read it. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xhtml?tocCode=CONS&tocTitle=+California+Constitution+-+CONS https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codesTOCSelected.xh...