Related Citations
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Sarah E. Crooke, Titles of Nobility, Emoluments, and Presidential Privileges: Applying Flast to Unconstitutional Grants, 13 Liberty U. L. Rev. 499 (2019).
Arguing that the Framers’ intent in drafting the Anti-Nobility Clauses was to prohibit not only the granting of hereditary nobility but also functional nobility through the bestowing of special titles or favors.
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James W. Torke, Nepotism and the Constitution: The Kotch Case—A Specimen In Amber, 47 Loy. L. Rev. 561 (2001).
Documenting how fear of aristocratic succession to power energized the debates over the Anti-Nobility Clauses at the Constitutional Convention.
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Jack M. Balkin, The Constitution of Status, 106 Yale L.J. 2313 (1997).
Arguing the prohibitions on titles of nobility were intended “to stamp out” a “pernicious system of social hierarchy” that created “an entire system of social prestige based on nobility.”
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Richard Delgado, Inequality “From the Top”: Applying an Ancient Prohibition to an Emerging Problem of Distributive Justice, 32 UCLA L. Rev. 100 (1984).
Tracing the history and development of the Anti-Nobility Clauses.