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What The US Constitution Says
About Greenspan's 'Knighthood'

By Nat Hentoff
VillageVoice.com
8-7-2

British Monarch To Award Greenspan With Honorary Knighthood
http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/490544p-3914334c.html
 
What the Constitution (remember that, Alan?) says about it
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
 
 
Article I. - The Legislative Branch
 
Section 9 - Limits on Congress
[ ... ] 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.
 
 
Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States
 
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. [ ... ]





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