nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/2c51d9927b55abe5 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260805s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/2c51d9927b55abe5 doi eng 342 23 Naranjo Cáceres, Juan Zahir Author aut Sworn Elsewhere - De la Espriella’s US Oath and Colombia’s Constitution Naranjo Cáceres, Juan Zahir Verfassungsblog 2026-08-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 7 August, Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, takes office. He will swear to keep faith with the Constitution and take command of the armed forces. Yet he has already sworn, in an oath that remains formally operative, to renounce all allegiance to every other sovereign and to bear arms for the United States. Constitutions that make dual nationality an individual right seldom pause to ask what that right means for the one office meant to personify the sovereignty of the people. Colombia can no longer avoid the question. CC BY-SA 4.0 Columbia Dual Citizenship President Presidential Powers United States Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/espriella-us-citizenship/ raw object