Nevada State Oath of Office

Leonard Will Support, Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States and the Nevada Constitution. Leonard believes that one of the main problems with our state government is that our elected officials do not honor their oath of office. The promise in the oath of office is pretty simple: to support, protect and defend the Nevada and United States Constitutions. It is about YOUR Rights. The job of the state legislature is to preserve the rights promised to you by our State and federal Constitutions.

Leonard first took this Oath when he enlisted in the US Navy in 1978 at the age of 17. Upon his Honorable Discharge, this Oath did not go away. Leonard understands that an Oath is forever and it is his goal to follow this Oath as your Assemblyman in the State of Nevada.

You have Leonard's solemn Oath, that he will protect the sovereignty of the American people against unconstitutional actions.

“State legislatures will always be, not only the vigilant, but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens against encroachments from the federal government.”
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers 26

"But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 32, January 3, 1788

The oath taken by State elected officials:
I, ................, do solemnly swear that I will support, protect and defend the constitution and government of the United States, and the constitution and government of the State of Nevada, against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, allegiance and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution or law of any state notwithstanding, and that I will well and faithfully perform all the duties of the office of ................, on which I am about to enter; so help me God; under the pains and penalties of perjury.

(Nevada Constitutional Debates and Proceedings, pp. 104-107, 609, 610, 662, 744, 809, 847.) [Amended in 1914: proposed and passed by the 1911 Legislature, agreed to and passed by the 1913 Legislature, and approved and ratified by the people at the 1914 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 458; Journal of the Assembly, 26th Session, p.20 and Journal of the Senate, 26th Session, p.37.]