I Do Solemnly Swear The President's Constitutional Oath Its Meaning and Importance in the History of Oaths

Focuses on the President's oath as the point in our institutional government where it defends itself against pressures that are brought to bear on it from our domestic civil society and from foreign regimes. Part I establishes the history of oaths from ancient times to the eve of the American Revolution, and Part II examines the role of oaths in the social-contract moment of the American and French Revolutions. Part III studies the American President's oath in light of the stages of American political development.Pauley, Matthew A. is the author of 'I Do Solemnly Swear The President's Constitutional Oath Its Meaning and Importance in the History of Oaths' with ISBN 9780761814887 and ISBN 0761814884.