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NSH001 (
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With a view to improving the citation of this article, I took a look at the wiki articles linked from this section. From a quick skim through, it appears that this section is slightly inaccurate. It states that the The final draft of the 1787 Constitution of the United States makes four references to an "oath or affirmation". I counted all the references in the 1787 constitution, and there are only three. The fourth is in Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights, not the 1787 final draft.
I'm not an expert on the US constitution (far from it!), and I would prefer to have a secondary source to cite this info to before making changes. Any suggestions?
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NSH001 (
talk) 19:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
The information regarding the affirmation of Pierce would appear to be contradictory to the information supplied on the wiki pages for Pierce as well as John Quincy Adams. This section states that Pierce is the only president to affirm, yet the Pierce and Adams pages indicate that Adams did so prior to Pierce. I have no idea which is correct but clearly one is incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.103.89.177 ( talk) 14:13, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
And isn't it the expression of an opinion to speculate about the motives of taking this affirmation, whatever it is? And isn't it an even more treacherous expression of the same opinion to link to this article from the discussion of religious objection to an oath? Because we have to presume that there are people who won't take an oath no matter what name we give it; and yet they are not duly represented here. --
VKokielov (
talk) 02:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
The link to Matthew 5:34-37 goes to an expired url. I do not know where to properly direct this. 65.217.137.4 ( talk) 18:42, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
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This article was started as a replacement for the relevant sections in the
Affirmation article
permanent link. See also the discussion there.
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NSH001 (
talk) 01:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
With a view to improving the citation of this article, I took a look at the wiki articles linked from this section. From a quick skim through, it appears that this section is slightly inaccurate. It states that the The final draft of the 1787 Constitution of the United States makes four references to an "oath or affirmation". I counted all the references in the 1787 constitution, and there are only three. The fourth is in Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights, not the 1787 final draft.
I'm not an expert on the US constitution (far from it!), and I would prefer to have a secondary source to cite this info to before making changes. Any suggestions?
--
NSH001 (
talk) 19:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
The information regarding the affirmation of Pierce would appear to be contradictory to the information supplied on the wiki pages for Pierce as well as John Quincy Adams. This section states that Pierce is the only president to affirm, yet the Pierce and Adams pages indicate that Adams did so prior to Pierce. I have no idea which is correct but clearly one is incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.103.89.177 ( talk) 14:13, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
And isn't it the expression of an opinion to speculate about the motives of taking this affirmation, whatever it is? And isn't it an even more treacherous expression of the same opinion to link to this article from the discussion of religious objection to an oath? Because we have to presume that there are people who won't take an oath no matter what name we give it; and yet they are not duly represented here. --
VKokielov (
talk) 02:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
The link to Matthew 5:34-37 goes to an expired url. I do not know where to properly direct this. 65.217.137.4 ( talk) 18:42, 21 November 2013 (UTC)