Oath of Office

[shikamaru]

My studies indicate the Oath is more in the nature of a contract agreement. Election to Office = Offer / Oath = Acceptance. Keep in mind the original definition of License is :

n. - 1. Leave; permission; authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act. A license may be verbal or written; when written, the paper containing the authority is called a license.

v.t. - 1. To permit by grant of authority; to remove legal restraint by a grant of permission; as, to license a man to keep an inn.

2. To authorize to act in a particular character; as, to license a physician or a lawyer.

Wow... this echos what a friend of mine said. Okay, I will have to accept that an oath is a contract.

Oh snap! I should have deduced that with regard to how oaths were treated in England. An offer was made and then sealed before witnesses in a ceremony.