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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry nobility-titles-of
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Nobility, titles of
In the new naturalization bill was a clause prohibiting the use of a title of nobility by an alien after he should become a citizen of the United States.
This provision was first suggested by Giles, of Virginia.
The New England Federalists ridiculed it, and it became a subject of warm debate in Congress.
They argued that a title was harmless, and that to refuse it might seem churlish, especially to require its renunciation by an unhappy exile.
The very judge, they said, who administered the oath or pledge to such a naturalized citizen might the next moment address him as marquis, count, or my lord, and who could prevent it? . . . Why not require him to renounce his connection with the Jacobin Club, if he should be a member of it?
asked a New England member.
Why not require him to renounce the pope?
Priestcraft, he thought, was quite as dangerous as aristocracy.
Giles, who had called for the yeas and nays, placed these New-Englanders in the dilemma th
New England (United States) (search for this): entry nobility-titles-of
William Branch Giles (search for this): entry nobility-titles-of
Samuel Dexter (search for this): entry nobility-titles-of
Richard Henry Lee (search for this): entry nobility-titles-of