“I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” FRANCE. The President of the French Republic takes no Oath on the assumption of office. AUSTRO-HUNGARY. The Emperor on his Accession takes the Solemn Oath in the presence of both houses of the Reichsrath-- “To maintain the inviolability of the fundamental laws of the Kingdoms and Provinces represented in the Reichsrath and to rule in accordance with these and the common laws of the Empire.” The Oath taken by the present Emperor as King of Hungary: “We, Francis Joseph I., by the Grace of God, etc., as Hereditary and Apostolic King of Hungary and its Dependencies, swear by Almighty God, by the Virgin Mary, and by all the Saints of God, to maintain the Churches of God, the municipal liberties of Hungary and its Dependencies, as well as the ecclesiastical and lay inhabitants of those states of every rank, in their rights, prerogatives, freedom, privileges, laws, in their ancient, good and approved customs; to see that justice is done all: to maintain intact rights, constitution, and the legal independence and territorial integrity of Hungary and its Dependencies: to respect the laws of the late King Andreas II., not to alienate nor curtail the dominion of Hungary and its Dependencies, nor whatever belongs to these countries by right or title, but as far as possible to increase and extend them; and that we will do all that we are justly able to do for the common welfare, glory, and increase of these countries. So help us God and all His Saints.” A statute of 1910, the Accession Declaration Act, “to alter the form of the Declaration required to be made by the Sovereign on Accession,” provides for the use of the following Oath by the King:-- “I (_here insert the name of the Sovereign_) do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful Protestant, and that I will, according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the Throne of my Realm, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my powers according to law.” It is not uninteresting to learn the official position of the Sovereign as defined by statute (24 Henry VIII. c. 12.): “Whereby divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles, it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and King, having dignity and royal estate of the Imperial Crown of the same: “Unto whom a Body Politic, compact of all sorts and degrees of people, divided in terms by names of spiritualty and temporalty, been bounden and owen to bear, next to God, a natural and humble obedience.