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Donald Trump became the 47th American president on Monday, but the oath of office itself has been administered 73 times before to the 46 preceding chief executives. According to the Architect of the ...

For the second time, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Inauguration Day Monday in Washington, D.C., by raising his right hand and putting his left hand on top of a Bible.

But in one place the drafters of the Constitution wrote word for word what governance would look like under the newly constituted United States: the president’s oath of office. “I do solemnly ...

Article II of the U.S. Constitution requires the president to swear an oath of office before taking on the role of president. The Constitution does not specify how this oath should be administered ...