Titles of Nobility Amendment


Titles of Nobility Amendment[1]
The Government of the United States of America
Proposed 1810 (pending)
15340Titles of Nobility Amendment[1] — Proposed 1810 (pending)1810The Government of the United States of America


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.

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  1. This Amendment may be read here.