[tpaine]

Aren't members of the Electoral College sworn in under Article VI, Section 3? I vaguely remember something like that. Would that also apply to delegates to an Article V Convention?
Publius

Billybob wrote:
Interestingly enough, the answer to your question is no. That Article says it applies to "Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States...." So it covers everyone in executive and judicial offices, but it does not cover legislative officials outside the state legislatures. This would exclude the occasional state or federal constitutional convention, and also the roughly 250,000 local and county officials. It is a matter of tradition, not constitutional requirement, that such elected officials use the same form of oath as all others.

Publius, we can see from the above opinion why our Republic is in such danger. -- 250,000 local and county officials do not need to honor our Constitution as the Law of the Land. -- Good grief.

[Congressman Billybob]

Your conclusion is absurd. First, I made it clear that state and local officials DO use the same oath, as a matter of tradition rather than requirement. And even if not, the idea that an oath, rather than education and respect, is what binds Americans to their Constitution is contrary to the understandings of all those who wrote and ratified the Constitution, and have sought to preserve it ever since.

Read my next column, “Raising the Edifice.” It is based on a just-discovered text by George Washington. You might learn something.

John / Billybob