Passed by Congress in 1810, the amendment came within two states of being approved between 1812 and 1816. The text of the amendment:
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain, any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
The amendment may have been aimed at a four year old. Jerome Napoleon “Bo” Bonaparte was born on July 5, 1805, the product of a marriage between Jerome Bonaparte, a brother of Napoleon and Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon had been outraged by this marriage entered into without his consent and forced Jerome to agree to an annulment. Go here to read more about this short union.  “Bo” lived in the United States with his wealthy mother. He became a farmer, and eventually chairman of the Maryland Agricultural Society. He married and had two sons, he and his wife thus becoming the founders of the American branch of the Bonaparte family. His son Charles would serve as Secretary of the Navy and Attorney General in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1908, as Attorney General, he founded the FBI.
I think the amendment is a good idea to limit foreign influence in the United States. It needs 26 more states to be ratified.
Don’t tell our native aristocracy: Bill and Hillary; Barry and Michelle Antoinette; Pelosi; the Bush dynasty; et al. .
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Just thinking. I figured out why Hillary picked as VP matey, Little Timmy Kaine. He’s a eunuch.
One question: would priests being named Monsignors (technically, honorary members of the Papal household) fall under this prohibition? It is, after all, a “title of honour” granted by the head of state (the Pope) of a recognized foreign nation, i.e. Vatican City State. I understand the general intention behind it, but if this amendment had passed, wouldn’t it have just been used as another club to beat down the influence of the Church?
Probably not Elaine due to the First Amendment freedom of religion. Constitutional provisions have to be read in pari materia and freedom of relgion would have protected a purely religious honor. Now if the Pope made someone a member of the Papal States nobility then that would be a different matter and would probably have been prohibited under the Titles of Nobility Amendment.
Very few countries allow dual citizenship. Accepting a title of nobility from another country would vanquish American citizenship. Notice too, that the Amendment prohibits not only titles of nobility but taking gifts, presents, pensions and emoluments from foreign kings and rulers as Hillary has been doing for her forging of one world, godless government under the world bank or the UN whichever Hillary might use to her advantage. “They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters” Daniel Webster