The bar gods have smiled on me...
Most of you have probably heard, but as of October 2, I am officially an esquire. Webster's online dictionary has defined it thusly....1 : a member of the English gentry ranking below a knight, 2 : a candidate for knighthood serving as shield bearer and attendant to a knight, 3 -- used as a title of courtesy usually placed in its abbreviated form after the surname Not too informative (for that you may want to look at AskJeeves.com) but it is cool to see its English background considering I am here in England (though apparently many have argued that its use is unconstitutional, as no state shall "grant any title of nobility; and no person can become a citizen of the United States until he has renounced all titles of nobility." At one point use of the title was almost grounds for losing your American citizenship, according to AskJeeves:
"In January 1810 Senator Reed proposed the Thirteenth Amendment, and on April 26, 1810 was passed by the Senate 26 to 1 (1st-2nd session, p. 670) and by the House 87 to 3 on May 1, 1810 (2nd session, p. 2050) and submitted to the seventeen states for ratification. The Amendment reads as follows:
'If any citizen of the United States shall Accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor, 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.'"
Obviously, this is not the same Thirteenth Amendment that appears in our Constitution, so I think I am in the clear in adopting the designation for myself.
In light of this great (and relieving) news, I will celebrate by taking some time to update my webpage in the near future.
In the meantime, anyone interested in seeing the pictures I've taken so far can email me their email address, and I can send them the current photo album. Cheers.
"In January 1810 Senator Reed proposed the Thirteenth Amendment, and on April 26, 1810 was passed by the Senate 26 to 1 (1st-2nd session, p. 670) and by the House 87 to 3 on May 1, 1810 (2nd session, p. 2050) and submitted to the seventeen states for ratification. The Amendment reads as follows:
'If any citizen of the United States shall Accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor, 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.'"
Obviously, this is not the same Thirteenth Amendment that appears in our Constitution, so I think I am in the clear in adopting the designation for myself.
In light of this great (and relieving) news, I will celebrate by taking some time to update my webpage in the near future.
In the meantime, anyone interested in seeing the pictures I've taken so far can email me their email address, and I can send them the current photo album. Cheers.
posted by JJ at 5:58 AM
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