What is Titles of Nobility Amendment?
{{US Constitution article series}} The '''Titles of Nobility Amendment''' is a [[wikt:proposed|proposed]] [[Article Five of the United States Constitution#Proposing amendments|amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]]. It was approved by the [[United States Congress|11th Congress]] on May 1, 1810, and submitted to the [[US states|state]] [[legislature]]s for [[ratification]]. It would [[wikt:strip#Verb|strip]] United States [[citizenship]] from any citizen who accepted a [[Nobility|title of nobility]] from a [[wikt:foreign|foreign]] [[country]]. On two occasions between 1812 and 1816, it only needed ratifying by two states to become a valid part of the Constitution. Congress did not set a [[Article Five of the United States Constitution#Deadline imposed on ratification process|time limit]] for its ratification,{{efn|The [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighteenth Amendment]] was the first to have a time limit for states to ratify the proposed amendment.<ref name=amendTN>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisnation.com/textbook/constitution-amend.html |title=Amending the Constitution |publisher=ThisNation.com |access-date=13 March 2016 |archive-date=29 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229060133/http://www.thisnation.com/textbook/constitution-amend.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Amendments before that time had no time limit. Those proposed afterwards have the same seven year limit.<ref name=amendTN/> For [[example]], Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One–Ten of the Constitution. Of the twelve Articles (Amendments) sent by the [[1st United States Congress]] for ratification by the states, ten were ratified as Amendments one through ten.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Charters of Freedom: The Bill of Rights|date=30 October 2015 |url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html|publisher=National Archives|access-date=19 March 2016|location=Washington D.C.}}</ref> Article two, which had no tim