Given the social and political circumstances of the United States at the time of the Founding, therefore, it is not surprising that the Constitution’s prohibition on state titles of nobility was ...

Argument over the Second Amendment routinely ... ” while the United States Constitution declares under Article 1 Sec 9.8 “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States” and ...

For 142 years, the federal government has kept a secret: A little-known constitutional amendment, designed to prevent people with “titles of nobility” from holding public office, was ratified ...

The mainstream view is that the "Titles of Nobility Amendment" (TONA) never achieved the necessary 13 ratifications—three quarters of the 17 states as of 1810—and fell further behind as more ...

It sought to ban any American citizen from receiving any foreign title of nobility or receiving foreign favors, such as a pension, without congressional approval. The penalty was loss of citizenship.

A land where, in 1810, a proposed constitutional amendment would have revoked the U.S. citizenship of any social parasite accepting a title of nobility from a foreign power.

Titles of Nobility Amendment Paolo Gallo / Shutterstock.com Still pending as an amendment, the Titles of Nobility Amendment was passed by the 11th Congress in May 1810.

Our Constitution expressly forbids both federal and state governments to grant titles of nobility. Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 84 , extolled that ban as the “cornerstone” of America ...

TITLES IN AMERICA. Share full article. March 21, 1885. ... They are indeed superior enough to titles of nobility, but then they make up for it by excessive partiality for titles of learning.

A few years ago, a group of Iowa Republicans claimed the legitimate 13th Amendment to the Constitution was “missing.” The debate is part of an historical detective story with some surprising ...