This Oath problem is systemic. As I’ve related elsewhere , the Orange County Citizens Grand Jury was making efforts to bring this to light in the mid 1990’s .

The Free Enterprise Society picked up that ball and has quite a bit to say about it. No personal recommendation for them here , just some FYI on the situation in California and their long standing project on the subject . Or should I say long sleeping ? Hempfling and crew don’t seem to make much progress beyond selling memberships and “Education” tapes .

The page concludes with a transcription of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Gray Champion .

Some snips from :

Oath of Office Project

Currently not one official in the State of California has taken the Constitutionally prescribed oath of office. This means, that there is no person occupying offices in our legislature, judiciary, or executive departments. Hence, we have people pretending to occupy our government offices who are not government officials. These people are passing laws, enforcing laws, and allegedly meting out justice.

We are currently attempting to gather the research and documents needed to petition the United States Government for Redress of Grievance and have them act under Article IV, Section Four of the United States Constitution and restore our Constitutional Republic. Of course, we must decide do we petition the Courts or the Congress. We have decided that petitioning the United States Congress should be our first attempt at correcting this situation. But we need help!! We must accumulate thousands or documents going back to 1953 to prove out our case. This is no small task.
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Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution reads as follows: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

The language is unmistakable. Every State within the Union of the United States is guaranteed a republican form of government. And, this guarantee is extended to each State by the government of the United States. In fact, every territory which applied for statehood was obligated to form a republican form of government and operate thereas to the satisfaction of the United States Government, for a period of time, prior to being admitted as a State of the Union.

(We will address later in this work how the courts have viewed the political/justiciable doctrines which arose as a result of Article IV Section 4.) In fact, if one is inclined to read the Act of Admission for California one would find that when admitting California to the Union, Congress "found [California] to be republican in its form of government". This could easily be identified by Congress upon examination of the California Constitution which established a republican form of government, in addition to the actual governmental practices in which the State of California engaged.

Article IV, Section 4 is further bolstered by the "Supremacy Clause" contained in Article VI Clause 2 which states "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; . . . . shall be the supreme Law of the Land."

With these two Articles in place it cannot be doubted that every State of the Union is guaranteed a republican form of government, as opposed to any other type of government; that such a guarantee is the Supreme Law of the Land and cannot be contravened by any other law any State may decide to make; and, it is the duty of the United States government to ensure that this guarantee is not displaced by some more expedient form of government. And, California adopted and ratified a Constitution consistent with the United State’s Constitution, wherein it was required to provide for a republican form of government.