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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.
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.
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.”
Tracing the history and development of the Anti-Nobility Clauses.
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