• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Article 6 of the Constitution says, with my emphasis on a pertinent part:

    The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be Required as a Qualification To any Office or public Trust under the United States.

    Maybe I’m wrong here, but I’d think that the President is “an executive Officer of the United States” thus bound by the oath/affirmation they took, regardless of whether the oath said “support the Constitution” verbatim, to support the Constitution per this article…