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- From: perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Charactor Titles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.134914.6146@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:49:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.172549.4344@thinkage.on.ca> jim@thinkage.on.ca (James Alan Gardner) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.150921.26090@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez) writes:
- >>As a non-catholic, I would not address the Pope as "your holiness".
- >>I don't think he's holy. Similarly, calling a king "your majesty"
- >>would imply that I was one of his subjects, which would be
- >>unconstitutional given my citizenship.
- >
- >President Bush explicitly referred to Queen Elizabeth II of
- >England as Her Majesty.
-
- What U.S. official was it who got canned because she curtsied to royalty
- some years ago? I know "Miss Manners" disapproved of American citizens
- bowing or curtsying to royalty, seeing as how the U.S. Constitution
- disallows it.
-
- >It's a term of respect for the office,
- >not an oath of devotion. Choosing not to use the term is choosing
- >a deliberate insult to the office and the holder thereof. If
- >that's not your intent, don't do it.
-
- Did Queen Elizabeth II refer to Mr. Bush as "Mr. President"? Just a
- question.
-
- >
- >And by the way, I know a number of people with joint Canadian-
- >American citizenship. Since Canadians are still nominally
- >British subjects, there can't be any inherent U.S. constitutional
- >conflict between being a U.S. citizen and being a subject of the
- >Queen.
-
- Hmmm... I didn't know that the USA permitted dual citizenship. I'll have
- to check up on that.
-
-
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- That which is necessary is never evil. If an evil seems necessary, look
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