{"id":14199,"date":"2024-07-04T00:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2024-07-04T00:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:17:28","slug":"no-potentates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/no-potentates\/","title":{"rendered":"No potentates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14200\" style=\"width: 669px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/230704-new-citizens-Monticello.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"1028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/230704-new-citizens-Monticello.jpg 669w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/230704-new-citizens-Monticello-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/230704-new-citizens-Monticello-666x1024.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a few hours we&#8217;re walking up Monticello Mountain for my favorite legal event. People from all over the world take the oath of citizenship, and become Americans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.&#8221;-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/citizenship\/learn-about-citizenship\/the-naturalization-interview-and-test\/naturalization-oath-of-allegiance-to-the-united-states-of-america\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/no-potentates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No potentates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-awe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14202,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions\/14202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}