Re: Questions regarding NAC ground units, was SG IF morale

--- WJAL21@aol.com wrote:

> Most Nobility currently are "Life Peers". The title
> is not passed on to  descendants.
> Also they are generally awarded to People making an
> outstanding contribution  to the country. Senior 
> military officers, Chief Constables, civil servants,

> retired politicians, and very successful
> businessmen. Of course there also  those who get an
> award for sucking up to the right person, i.e. the 
> Prime  Minister.
> They are really a pat on the back for a job well
> done. 

That's what they have become.  That's not what they
were.

> As for Americans accepting them I don't think there
> is much doubt they would. 

There's not much doubt in my mind that more than a few
of us would kill the man that claimed peerage among
Americans.  It's forbidden in our Constitution.

> t's not as if they are any more modest about their
> achievements than the  English. There are a couple 
> of Americans given a title every now and again, I 
> think normally a Knighthood. General Stormin Norman
> (sorry can't spell his 
> surname) got one after the Gulf war.
> Just my opinion.

Always honorary.  You can't knight an American, nor
make him a baron et al without revoking his
citizenship.  

You're forgetting the basic premise of a
Republic--there is neither higher nor lower title than
citizen.  A free man kneels to no one and need no one
to kneel to him.  Nobility is only significant if
you've got serfs.  That's why there's something like
12 men that own 80% of Scotland.

John

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