From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 20:22:33 -0800 (PST)
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: denial of service and government rights
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Duncan Frissell wrote:
> At 04:02 PM 12/6/96 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
> >you were speaking of human rights, and the issue of Bush being Knighted
> >... just out of curiousity, why is it against the constitution for Bush
> >to be Knighted??

> Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution of the United States:
> 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.

Re:  The consent of Congress clause.
Someone claimed already that Congress *did* approve of it, for Bush and
Schwartzkopf. Does anyone have factual info on this? An article perhaps?