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So Help Me God

January 14, 2009

     Michael Newdow has filed suit to prohibit the Chief Justice John Roberts from stating and President-Elect Barack Obama from repeating the phrase "so help me God" following the oath of office next week at the Inauguration.  Three provisions of the Constitution bear upon this question: the Clause prescribing the presidential oath of office, the Establishment Clause, [...]

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Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses: What Will Obama Say?

January 13, 2009

     One week from today Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, and he has announced that Lincoln will be a theme for the Inauguration.  Obama will take the oath of office with the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861.  Will Obama model his Inaugural [...]

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