A non-juror is a person who refuses to swear a particular oath:
* In British history, non-jurors refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary and their heirs or abjure the Stuarts; see
Nonjuring schism
* In French history, non-jurors or
Refractory clergy
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly abolished the traditional structure of the Catholic Church in France and reorganized it as an institution within the structure of the new French government through the Civil Constitution of the C ...
were clergy members who refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the state under the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy; also known as refractory clergy, priests and bishops
* In American history, non-jurors were citizens of the
Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the United Colonies, were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Founded in the 17th and 18th cent ...
who declined both to fight as
Loyalists
Loyalism, in the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and its former colonies, refers to the allegiance to the British crown or the United Kingdom. In North America, the most common usage of the term refers to loyalty to the British Cro ...
and to swear the Oath of Allegiance to the rebel state governments
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