With all this in mind, some doctors see oath-taking as little more than a pro-forma ritual with little value beyond that of upholding tradition. "The original oath is redolent of a convenant ...

Jeanine Pirro appeared alongside President Donald Trump at the White House to be sworn in as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on Wednesday.

Modern interpretations of the Hippocratic Oath, which dates back over 2000 years, have replaced the original in which students swore to the physician Apollo and healing “gods and goddesses.” ...

But in one place the drafters of the Constitution wrote word for word what governance would look like under the newly constituted United States: the president’s oath of office. “I do solemnly ...