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Story: Here today, gong tomorrow for 'Sir' Bill Gates

Posted by: Adam Hendine (Monday 26 January 2004, 12:10 PM)

To quote from the BBC website...

A constitutional amendment to outlaw such awards was written back in 1810 - just before Britain and the US resumed their warring ways.

"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 ¿ 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."

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Any office of trust...