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That the people called Quakers, those called Nicolites, or New Quakers, those called Tunkers, and those called Menonists, holding it unlawful to take an oath on any occasion, shall be allowed to make their solemn affirmation as witnesses, in the manner that Quakers have been heretofore allowed to affirm, which affirmation shall be of the same avail as an oath, to all intents and purposes whatever.
Some continental European countries allow witnesses who object to oaths to substitute a solemn affirmation, and Denmark has abolished all oaths in legal procedures.
The judicial duel was adopted because solemn affirmation, or swearing of oaths, in legal disputes had led to widespread perjury and because the ordeal seemed to leave too much to chance or to manipulation by priests.
When she took her seat, she refused to take the traditional oath of allegiance to the queen (though by law she still had to make a "solemn affirmation" to "bear allegiance" to the monarch).
While she refused to take the traditional oath of allegiance to the queen, she still had to make a solemn affirmation — an alternative to taking the oath — to "bear true allegiance" to the queen; she did not refuse to swear allegiance.
Non-believers can make a "solemn affirmation" that leaves out any mention of God.
It's the last chance for members to take the oath or solemn affirmation of parliamentary service before they debate the Queen's Speech.
She replied, "I do," to an oath that included the phrase "so help you God". Bothwell merely promised his "solemn affirmation". Manheimer, a lawyer, said the clause banning nonbelievers is unconstitutional.
Below is the final page of the letter, which ends, "I wish to conclude this affidavit by repeating in the most solemn way the affirmation of loyalty to the United States and opposition to Soviet Communism which I expressed [in 1949]." In 1954, Seldes writes, the Ford Foundation invited Bernstein to appear on the "Omnibus" program, and the apparent blacklist ended.
The Academy Award he had won for his screenwriting two years earlier seemed less like an affirmation of his talents than a solemn, faceless bookend to the Oscar he had received back in 1956: one statue to signify where the journey of a once-promising screenwriter started and the other to mark its termination.
