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3903 A Folsom
This lovely 2 bedroom, 1 bath, second floor apartment was renovated just a few years ago.
It’s got newer kitchen, bathroom, appliances, light fixtures, flooring--you name it!
You'll enjoy:
* Light filled living room
* Kitchen with all appliances - stove, microwave, dishwasher, fridge
* Washer/dryer inside the unit
* Easy care vinyl plank flooring in living room, kitchen and hallways, carpeting in bedroom
* High efficiency heating/cooling systems
* High ceilings
Certain income limits necessary to qualify.
Students welcome.
Contact Julie at Failoni Consultants
314-772-8407 ext. 110
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Missouri History with a Shaw Connection
The Missouri Loyalty Oath
Missouri once had a state loyalty oath. It was part of the constitution written by Radical Republicans at the end of the Civil War in that convention that started on January 6, 1865. The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial museum (the JNEM is the formal name for the Gateway Arch complex in St. Louis) has a copy of an Oath of Loyalty Book with signatures of men holding or seeking public office from 1868-1871.
If you did not take the oath that you had been a loyal citizen to Union-controlled Missouri during the Civil War and that you would uphold the provisions of the 1865 constitution, you were denied many basic citizenship rights including the right to practice a profession including preaching and teaching, to hold public office, to serve as a corporate trustee, or to vote. Violators could be fined $500.
More than 800 sheriffs, judges, and other officials were thrown out of office under the constitution. Two members of the three-member state supreme court were removed from their offices by the state militia, their positions filled by Radicals who would make sure the constitution’s provisions were upheld.
The Catholic Church launched a strong opposition movement with St. Louis Archbishop Peter Kenrick telling priests they could not take the oath because their “does not emanate from the State, and we cannot, without compromising the ecclesiastical state, consent to take it.” And he flatly stated, “No Catholic Priest in Missouri will take it.”
Dozens of priests and nuns and Protestant ministers were arrested. One was Father John Cummings, the pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Louisiana, in Pike County, who was arrested after preaching to a group of railroad workers on September 3, 1865, and fined $500 for preaching without having taken the state loyalty oath. He refused to pay the fine. The restructured Missouri Supreme Court made sure his conviction was upheld. The case went to the United States Supreme Court.
The First Amendment Freedom of Religion was not the issue in these proceedings, as one might think it would have been. The legal issue was the loyalty oath as a legal standard.
Cummings’ attorneys argued that the loyalty oath in the constitution was an ex post facto law–a law that criminalized past acts that were not crimes at the time they were committed and that it assumed the clergy (and others by reference although this case was only a clergy case) was guilty of treason until proven innocent. That would be a “bill of attainder” which is forbidden by the United States Constitution that establishes a person is innocent until proven guilty.
The court ruled 5-4 on those legal points to overturn Cummings’ conviction and find the loyalty oath unconstitutional.
Thanks to The Missourinet Blog and The Missouri Historical Society

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