To: Borges
I’m not sure if this is constitutional, but couldn’t the state have a monarchy on its level and still be part of the republic, so long as the state-level monarchy did not violate the pertinent provisions of the constitution? That would be rather interesting.
4 posted on
06/19/2008 2:46:34 PM PDT by
Unlikely Hero
("Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." --Berlioz)
To: Unlikely Hero
There is a clause in the US constitution prohibiting hereditary offices and titles of nobility.
6 posted on
06/19/2008 2:52:57 PM PDT by
FFranco
To: Unlikely Hero
I’m not sure if this is constitutional, but couldn’t the state have a monarchy on its level and still be part of the republic, so long as the state-level monarchy did not violate the pertinent provisions of the constitution? That would be rather interesting.
It would run smack dab into Article IV, Section 4, which requires every state to have a republican form of government.
20 posted on
06/19/2008 3:12:17 PM PDT by
Cheburashka
(Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
To: Unlikely Hero
From the constitution:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...”
and:
“No State shall...grant any Title of Nobility.”
Aloha
41 posted on
06/19/2008 4:24:04 PM PDT by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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