The case is plainer now than then, inasmuch as there is now an explicit text requiring loyalty as a “qualification.” Formerly we were left to something in the nature of inference; now the requirement is plain as language can make it.
Sumner emphasizes the clarity of loyalty as a requirement for public office after the Fourteenth Amendment.
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