Article 1, §9, clause 8
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Figures. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Calm down, MT. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
That's the rule of law in the US: "of any kind whatever". Guess why? Conference of a foreign title of nobility, with or without expressed hereditary property rights, realizes political or social allegiance to the Crown of England. Ambivalent allegiance of a "person holding any office or trust" in the US governments diminunizes sovereignty of the republic, democratic so-called. That's what your "Founding Fathers" believed before and after debating allegiance to the Crown as opposed to British Parliament.
And an order of knighthood is not a Grammy Award® by ballot.
20 years from now you'll be telling someone, "Calm down. Viscount McConnell hasn't much longer to live."
Or, "The Queen is not a king."
Or, "The Consititution is just a piece of paper."
See. Now. The more I think about this, the more pissed off I become. I don't care how many motherfuckin tumors...
Time out for MT. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
