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Anna Pendland and Angel Shamaya Article II - Natural Rights
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All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights - among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obt aining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin.
June 2, l784
Amended l974 adding sentence to prohibit discrimination.
Article II; A - The Bearing of Arms
All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.
December l, l982
Article 24 - Militia
A well regulated militia is the proper, natural, and sure defense, of a state.
June 2, l784
Article 25 - Standing Armies
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Standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be raised, or kept up, without the consent of the legislature.
June 2, l784
Article 26 - Military Subject to Civil Power
In all cases, and at all times, the military ought to be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
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Article 84 - Oath of Civil Officers
Any person chosen governor, councilor, senator, or representative, military or civil officer, (town officers excepted) accepting the trust, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, make and subscribe the following declaration, viz.
I, __________ do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.
I, _________ do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as ______________, according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and laws of the state of New Hampshire. So help me God.
Any person having taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, and the same being filed in the secretary's office, he shall not be obliged to take said oath again.
Provided always, when any person chosen or appointed as aforesaid shall be of the denomination called Quakers, or shall be scrupulous of swearing, and shall decline taking the said oaths, such person shall take and subscribe them, omitting the word "swear," and likewise the words "So help me God," subjoining instead thereof, "This I do under the pains and penalties of perjury."
I,______________ do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm, that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as_______________according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution, and the laws of the State of New Hampshire. So help me God
June 2, l784
Amended l792 three times, changing president to governor; shortening oath of allegiance; and dispensing with need to take second oath.
Amended l970 adding allegiance to the United States of America.
United States Right to Keep and
Bear Arms UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to
the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed. Source: Bill
of Rights, Second Amendment (ratified 1791, and still the Law of the Land) U.S. Constitution Comes Before
Statutes, Edicts, Ordinances, Rules or Regulations UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ARTICLE VI. All Debts contracted and Engagements entered
into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the
United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or
which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the
supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before
mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all
executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several
States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution;
but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office
or public Trust under the United States. Source: Constitution
of the United States of America EXPLANATION FROM LAW.CORNELL.EDU: This means that state governments and officials
cannot take actions or pass laws that interfere with the Constitution, laws
passed by Congress, or treaties. The Constitution was interpreted, in 1819, as
giving the Supreme Court the power to invalidate any state actions that
interfere with the Constitution and the laws and treaties passed pursuant to it.
That power is not itself explicitly set out in the Constitution but was declared
to exist by the Supreme Court in the decision of McCulloch v. Maryland. Every person who, under color of any statute,
ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the
District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the
United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the
deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the
Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at
law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in
any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in
such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted
unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was
unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable
exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of
the District of Columbia. (R.S. Sec. 1979; Pub. L. 96-170, Sec. 1, Dec.
29, 1979, 93 Stat. 1284; Pub. L. 104-317, title III, Sec. 309(c), Oct. 19, 1996,
110 Stat. 3853.) Source: For
date law was enacted, history of law, amendments (slight, and very much intact
in spirit), go here: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+42USC1983 TITLE 5. GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE (signed
into law on July 3, 1980) ANY PERSON IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE SHOULD: I. Put loyalty to the highest moral
principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government
department. II. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and
regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a
party to their evasion. III. Give a full day's labor for a full day's
pay; giving earnest effort and best thought to the performance of duties. IV. Seek to find and employ more efficient
and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished. V. Never discriminate unfairly by the
dispensing of special favors or VI. Make no private promises of any kind
binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private
word which can be binding on public duty. VII. Engage in no business with the
Government, either directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with the
conscientious performance of governmental duties. VIII. Never use any information gained
confidentially in the performance of government duties as a means for making
private profit. IX. Expose corruption wherever discovered. X. Uphold these principles, ever conscious
that public office is a public trust. DECA Poster 80-3, Feb 94 When this law was passed, it included a
requirement for posting the above in government facilities. That requirement was
later repealed. (Source 1,
Source
2) But the law itself is still very much a LAW. State
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