Constitution of the United States, 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 notwith-standing.
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.
Via Steve Gilvert, Sweetness & Light, from the Denver Post:
CHICAGO – In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation’s most qualified – Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted – has been submitted to the White House.
The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was bumped up two weeks because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, who sifted through more than 300 names.
I realize that literacy is not exactly Barack Obama’s long suit. But you’d think at least one person on the one’s staff could take time to read the Constitution and explain to the one the flat-out prohiti0n of any relgious test for office.
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