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• Some of the earliest oaths of allegiance to the United States of America (Priv. print. [by Lancaster press, inc.], 1944), by Nellie Protsman Waldenmaier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oaths of loyalty for teachers (American federation of teachers, 1935), by Henry R. Linville and American Federation of Teachers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teachers' oaths and related state requirements. (Washington, 1949), by National Education Association of the United States. Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The oath. A sermon on the nature and obligation of the oath, with special reference to the oath of allegiance. (Printed at the Gazette Office, 1864), by William Henry Ruffner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your oath "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that-- " : defending the Constitution, our common bond. (Dept. of the Army], 1987), by United States. Dept. of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal ethics. Address delivered before the students of Union university at Albany, N.Y., November 12, 1903 ([n.p., 1903), by Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oath of Applicant for Patent and Trademark : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights, Eighty-Seventh Congress, second session, on Sept. 4, 1962. (U.S. G.P.O., 1962), by Trademarks United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amendment to Oath of Enlistment : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee To Consider H.R. 218, Eighty-Seventh Congress, second session, on Aug. 8, 1962. (U.S. G.P.O., 1962), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee To Consider H.R. 218 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subcommittee hearing on H.R. 6171, to authorize commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to administer certain oaths, and for other purposes ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1950), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full committee hearings on S. 2441, H.R. 6171, H.R. 6805, H.R. 4316, S. 1990, H.R. 6478, H.R. 7058 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1950), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Law 94-213 : 94th Congress, H.R. 508, February 13, 1976 : an act to amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize civilians employed by the Department of Defense to administer oaths while conducting official investigations. (for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nation's hope in the democracy; historic lessons for Civil War. (Printed by L. Towers, 1864), by Samuel Sullivan Cox and Henry Winter Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Internationally protected persons bills, unsworn declarations bills hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session, on H.R. 12942, H.R. 13709, H.R. 11106, and H.R. 11217, June 30, 1976 ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Amend section 27 of the Shipping act, 1916. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Depositions, A treatise on the law of (S. Whitney & Co., 1880), by Edward P. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary draft of proposed amendments to rules of civil procedure for the United States district courts relating to deposition and discovery (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1967), by Judicial Conference of the United States. Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, United States Supreme Court, and Judicial Conference of the United States. Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Depositions and discovery under the Federal rules (American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education, [and] Practising Law Institute, 1946), by Arnold T. Koch and John M. Aherne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uniform civil depositions act : report of Committee on Uniform Civil Depositions Act, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (The Conference, 1933), by National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Committee on Civil Depositions Act (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Uniform foreign depositions act : concerning the taking of depositions in one state to used in any foreign jurisdiction (National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 1920), by National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (page images at HathiTrust)

• Examinations before trial in a state court (Practising Law Institute, 1960), by Benjamin Paul Goldman and Harry Sabbath Bodin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Era of the oath; Northern loyalty tests during the Civil War and reconstruction. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954), by Harold Melvin Hyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federal loyalty-security program (Cornell University Press, 1953), by Eleanor Bontecou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial personnel security review program : annual report. ([Washington], 1955), by Personnel United States. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Operation abolition"; : the campaign against the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation [and] the Government security program by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee and its affiliates. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust)
• The oath of allegiance to the United States. (s.n., 1863), by B. M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Open letter to the Board of Education, New York (Socialist Labor Party, 1920), by Olive M. Johnson and Socialist Labor Party (page images at HathiTrust)
• Administration of the Federal employees' security program : report pursuant to S. Res. 20 (84th Cong., 1st sess.) and S. Res. 154 (84th Cong., 2d sess.) a resolution to investigate the administration of the Federal employees' security program. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subcommittee hearing on H.R. 6171, to authorize commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to administer certain oaths, and for other purposes ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1950), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full committee hearings on S. 2441, H.R. 6171, H.R. 6805, H.R. 4316, S. 1990, H.R. 6478, H.R. 7058 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1950), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• The loyalty oath as a condition of public employment. (Little Rock, 1956), by Arkansas. General Assembly. Legislative Council. Research Dept (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To protect the national security of the United States : hearings before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, second session on H.R. 7439, a bill to protect the national security of the United States by permitting the summary suspension of employment of civilian officers and employees of various departments and agencies of the Government, and for other purposes. March 7, 23, 30, 1950. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing relating to H.R. 9753, to amend sections 3(7) and 5(b) of the Internal security act of 1950, as amended, relating to employment of members of Communist organizations in certain defense facilities : hearing before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session. February 7, 1962. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearings on H.R. 6241, the Constitutional oath support act. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution and loyalty programs: public employment and governmental security (Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund, 1954), by Alan F. Westin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The loyalty pledge controversy in the Democratic Party. (31 p., 1962), by Abraham Holtzmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Use of polygraphs as "lie detectors" by the federal government : tenth report (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colony of New Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, April 12, 1776. In order to carry the underwritten resolve of the hon'ble Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males above twenty one years of age (lunaticks, idiots and Negroes excepted) to sign to the declaration on this paper ... M. Weare, chairman. ... ([Portsmouth, N.H. : Printed by Daniel Fowle, 1776]), by New Hampshire. Committee of Safety and March 14 United States. Continental Congress. In Congress (HTML at Evans TCP)
• By His Excellency George Washington, Esq; general and commander in chief ... Proclamation. Whereas several persons, inhabitants of the United States of America ... have been so lost to the interest and welfare of their country, as to repair to the enemy ... Given at head quarters, Morris Town, January 25th, 1777. ... (Philadelphia: : Printed by William & Thomas Bradford., [1777]), by United States. Continental Army and George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Loyalty-security programs for Federal employees, a selected bibliography. (Bureau of Public Administration, University of California, 1955), by Dorothy C. Tompkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Considerations regarding the loyalty oath as a manifestation of current social tension and anxiety (The Group, 1954), by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Committee on Social Issues (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Legality of loyalty oath and non-oath requirements for public school teachers. (Boone, N.C., 1963), by Joseph E. Bryson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The loyalty oath as a condition of public employment. (Little Rock, 1956), by Arkansas. General Assembly. Legislative Council. Research Dept (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The California oath controversy (University of California Press, 1967), by David Pierpont Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the District Court of Appeal, State of California, Third Appellate District : Edward C. Tolman, ... vs. Robert M. Underhill ... : petition for writ of mandate (s.n., 1950), by Edward Chace Tolman, Stanley A. Weigel, Robert M. Underhill, University of California. Board of Regents, and California. Court of Appeal (3rd District) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fundamental issue: documents and marginal notes on the University of California loyalty oath. (Parker Printing Co., 1950), by Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The consequences of the abrogation of tenure : an accounting of costs. (Northern Section of the Academic Senate, University of California], 1951), by Ewald Theophilus Grether, William Ray Dennes, James Ralston Caldwell, and University of California (System). Academic Senate. Northern Section (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Loyalty oaths : report of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. (Assembly Interim Committee on Judiciary], 1959), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ralph Works Chaney, Ph.D. : paleobotanist, conservationist : transcript, 1959. (1959), by Ralph W. Chaney, Edna Tartaul Daniel, and Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Speech of Hon. William A. Graham, of Orange, In the Convention of North-Carolina, Dec. 7th, 1861, on the Ordinance Concerning Test Oaths and Sedition, by William A. Graham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Test oaths and sedition (W. W. Holden, 1862), by William A. Graham and North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech in the Convention of North Carolina, Dec. 7th, 1861 : on the ordinance concerning test oaths and sedition (W.W. Holden, 1862), by William A. Graham, W. W. Holden, and North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oaths of office for the use of city, county, and State officials in North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1960), by University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute of Government, Marion W. Benfield, and Albert Coates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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