![]() Thus, when New Hampshire ratified it in December 1812, the proposed amendment again came within 2 states of being ratified. However, with the addition of Louisiana into the Union that year (April 30, 1812), the ratification threshold rose to 14. When the proposed amendment was submitted to the states, ratification by 13 states was required for it to become part of the Constitution 11 had done so by early 1812. No other state legislature has completed ratification action on it. ![]() The amendment was rejected by Virginia (February 14, 1811), New York (March 12, 1812), Connecticut (May 13, 1813), and Rhode Island (September 15, 1814). Having been approved by Congress, the proposed amendment was sent to the state legislatures for ratification and was ratified by the following states: It was passed by the House on May 1, 1810, by a vote of 87–3. The Titles of Nobility Amendment was introduced in the Senate by Democratic–Republican Senator Philip Reed of Maryland, was passed on April 27, 1810, by a vote of 19–5 and sent to the House of Representatives for its consideration. Nonetheless, Representative Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina is recorded to have said, when voting on the amendment, that "he considered the vote on this question as deciding whether or not we were to have members of the Legion of Honor in this country." Legislative and ratification history The marriage had been annulled in 1805 – well before the amendment's proposal by the 11th Congress. Another theory is that his mother actually desired a title of nobility for herself and, indeed, she is referred to as the "Duchess of Baltimore" in many texts written about the amendment (not to be confused with Baron Baltimore, a British-Irish title one of whose holders was the namesake for the city of Baltimore). The child, named Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, was not born in the United States, but in the United Kingdom on J– nevertheless, he would have held U.S. One theory for why the Congress proposed the amendment is that it was in response to the 1803 marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, Jerome, and Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, Maryland, who gave birth to a boy for whom she wanted aristocratic recognition from France. This proposed amendment would amplify both Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, which prohibits the federal government from issuing titles of nobility or honor, and Section 10, Clause 1, which prohibits the states from issuing them. 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, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, 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 or profit under them, or either of them. Ratification by an additional 26 states is now needed for its adoption. Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, so the amendment is still pending before the states. On two occasions between 18, it was within two states of the number needed to become part of the Constitution. It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from an " emperor, king, prince or foreign power". The 11th Congress passed it on May 1, 1810, and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. The Titles of Nobility Amendment is a proposed and still-pending amendment to the United States Constitution.
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