. . . support and defend the Constitution . . . [View All]

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Larisa hits another one out of the park:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/you-are-an-american_b_5928.html

The oath I took in order to earn my right to be an American is strikingly similar to the oath taken by others who, while born here, still must make this obligation formal in order to serve the country, represent the citizens, and enforce the law . . .

These examples - although all oaths of duty and/or service to the country are written in much the same way - stipulate that only the Constitution be defended and adhered to, not even the country itself is mentioned outside of its subservience to that principle.

No oath of office or obligation of duty demands that a particular political party be supported, preserved, defended, protected, and adhered to -- because no political party defines what an American is.

No oath of office or obligation of duty demands that a particular ideology, be it secular, religious, and/or political, be supported, preserved, defended, protected, and adhered to -- because no ideology defines what an American is.

Most importantly, no single person or group of people are elevated above the Constitution and the rule of law, no matter what their role is in our society.