Context: The required beliefs of these clauses include belief in a Supreme Being and belief in a future state of rewards and punishments. (Tennessee Constitution Article IX, Section 2 is one such example.) Some of these same states specify that the oath of office include the words "so help me God." In some cases these beliefs (or oaths) were historically required of jurors and witnesses in court. At one time, such restrictions were allowed under the doctrine of states' rights; today they are deemed to be in violation of the federal First Amendment, as applied to the states via the 14th amendment, and hence unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Question: What do the non-permissible clauses require a belief in?
Answer: a Supreme Being

Question: What's one example in Tennessee's constitution?
Answer: Article IX, Section 2

Question: What language do some of the same states specify the oath of office include?
Answer: so help me God

Question: Requiring oaths invoking God are today deemed to be in violation of what?
Answer: federal First Amendment

Question: Because such oaths are in violation of the First Amendment, they're what?
Answer: unconstitutional and unenforceable

Question: What do the permissible clauses require a belief in?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What's not one example in Tennessee's constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What language do some of the different states specify the oath of office include?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  Requiring oaths invoking God are today deemed to not be in violation of what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Because such oaths are in violation of the Second Amendment, they're what?
Answer: Unanswerable