 Resolved, That every officer who holds or shall hereafter hold a commission or office from Congress shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : I do acknowledge the United States of America to be free, independent and sovereign States,...  The Genealogical Exchange - Page 851904Full view - About this book
 | Paul K. Walker - Government publications - 1981 - 430 pages
...American Army, and he lamented the wretched conditions that had led to large numbers of desertions. do acknowledge the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, to be...Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedi^ ence to George the Third, King of Great-Britain; and I renounce, refu^and abjure... | |
 | John C. Dann - History - 1999 - 476 pages
...to him accordingly, and before the commissioners left the house, it was taken by every officer. r ' do acknowledge the UNITED STATES of AMERICA to be...Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great-Britain ; and I renounce, refulc and... | |
 | Archives - 1995 - 430 pages
...which he delivered at New York City's Federal Hall on April 30, 1789. do acknowledge the UNITED S^ATJES of AMERICA to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great-Britain , and I renounce, refufc and... | |
 | Nellie Protsman Waldenmaier - Allegiance - 2009 - 102 pages
...commission or office fron Congress, shall take and subscribe the following Oath or Affirmation : "I, , do acknowledge the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to be Free Independent and Sovereign States, .nd declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to Geo-ge the Third, King of Great... | |
 | Dr. Walter L. Powell - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 116 pages
...and the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania could return. It do acknowledge the UNITED S^AT/S of AMERICA to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great -Britain ; and I renounce, refufc and... | |
 | Charlemagne Tower - History - 2005 - 537 pages
...the army 1 "4. The taking of the oath, while the present establishment 'The oath waa as followsj "I do acknowledge the United States of America to be...sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain ; and I renounce, refuse, and... | |
 | David Armitage - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...Thomas W. Benson, ed., American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism (Carbondale, 1989), i 19; / [blank] do acknowledge the UNITED STATES of AMERICA to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States . . . (np , nd [Philadelphia, 1776]). 31. Colin Warbrick, "States and Recognition in International... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 980 pages
...administered to all of the officers, in the following form : " It A — B — [giving the official title] do acknowledge the United States of America to be...Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain : and I renounce, refuse, and... | |
 | 130 pages
...Washington, May 7, 1778, General Orders.") Washington's oath for commissioned of ficers is as follows: I ... do acknowledge The United States of America to be...Sovereign States and declare that the People thereof owe no Allegiance or Obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain and I renounce refuse and abjure... | |
 | Ireland - 1921 - 700 pages
...document of Revolutionary days, to which officeholders affixed their signature, and which reads: "I do acknowledge the United States of America to be...Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third of Great Britain; and I do renounce, refuse and abjure... | |
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