Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110920:19:58:00
To clarify the equity and unity of the people of this country, it was made clear that no title of nobility shall be granted by the united states. this, we were told, was a major break from the monarchy, the ariisocracy, the landed gentry, the money classes that ruled and defined british society, but america was to be different. and so the article continues. "no person holding any office or profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of congress, accept any present, emolument, office, or title." but even though there are no titles, no lords, no vie counts, no countesses, no dukes, no...