In a message dated Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:10:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
<< [the beauty of the U.S. system is that the loyalty oaths are all implicit, not explicit...]
Actually, when I signed up as grad student TA at Michigan yea these many years ago, I had to swear to uphold and defend the constitutions of Michigan and the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We used to joke that this meant that if Michigan and Ohio went to war, we'd fight with Michigan. Since I have now graduated from both Michigan and Ohio State, where as a sometime prof., I had to take a similar oath, I guess I am free to choose sides as I will, the oaths cancelling each other out on a state level anyway.
--jks