---
kind: "section"
citation: "4 U.S.C. § 101"
title: "4"
title_heading: "Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States"
number: "101"
heading: "Oath by members of legislatures and officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/4/101"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — The States"
---

# §101. Oath by members of legislatures and officers


Every member of a [State](/usc/4/110.md?p=d) legislature, and every executive and judicial officer of a [State](/usc/4/110.md?p=d), shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, take an oath in the following form, to wit: “I, A B, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States.”


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)