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It is a violation of their constitutional oath of loyalty
The U.S. Constitution’s oath requirement applies to government officials, not to private companies—so a “company” generally has no “constitutional oath of loyalty” it could violate.
Full reasoning
The post refers to “this company” and asserts that its actions violate “their constitutional oath of loyalty.”
Under the U.S. Constitution, the relevant oath requirement (Article VI, Clause 3) binds specified government officeholders—“Senators and Representatives,” members of state legislatures, and “all executive and judicial Officers” of the United States and the states—to an oath or affirmation supporting the Constitution. It does not impose an oath obligation on private corporations simply because they are companies.
Authoritative summaries of this clause likewise describe the oath as an obligation of federal officials/employees and other public officers, not private companies. Therefore, characterizing a private “company” as having a constitutional oath (and violating it) is incorrect in the ordinary meaning of “company.”
(If the author meant a specific individual who is a government officer/employee associated with that company, that would be a different, more specific claim—but that’s not what the quoted sentence says.)
2 sources
- Oaths of Office Generally | U.S. Constitution Annotated (Cornell LII)
Article VI, Clause 3: “The Senators and Representatives... and all executive and judicial Officers... shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution...” (lists government officials bound by the constitutional oath).
- Oaths of Office: Texts, History, and Traditions | Supreme Court of the United States
Explains that “all federal officials must take an oath in support of the Constitution” and quotes Article VI’s oath clause; describes the oath as taken by federal employees/officials (not private companies).