Posted on 07/14/2011 10:00:21 AM PDT by the scotsman
'North Dakota is amending its constitution because of a long-standing technical omission that some claim makes its statehood invalid. So does that mean it's really just a US territory and not a state at all?
Every American child is taught there are 50 states in the US.
But an 82-year-old care home resident in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is throwing the truth of that universally held statement into some doubt.
While reading the state constitution, which is 40 years older than he is, John Rolczynski noticed it omitted to mention the executive branch when explaining which new officers need to take the oath supporting the US Constitution.
This, he says, makes the state constitution invalid because it is in conflict with the federal constitution, which requires all officers of the three branches of state government - executive, judicial and legislative - be bound by the oath.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
I am just kidding you.
I have a customer in Powers Lake(NE of Minot). He tells me how he will play an 18 hole round of golf after work in the summer.
He plays & coaches a lot of basketball in the winter.
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>It does actually. Read Article VI carefully.
>It requires state legislatures/executives/judicials to be bound by an oath.
That oath is specified, IIRC, in the US Code; so isn’t it a moot point?
(IOW, the US Constitution does not specify the wording of the oath either.)
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