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The Court, in "Horst v. Moses", 48 Alabama 129, 142 (1872) gave the following description of a title of nobility:
To confer a title of nobility, is to nominate to an order of persons to
whom privileges are granted at the expense of the rest of the people. It is
not necessarily hereditary, and the objection to it rises more from the
privileges supposed to be attached than to the otherwise empty title or
order. These components are forbidden separately in the terms "privilege",
"honor", and "emoluments", as they are collectively in the term "title of
nobility". The prohibition is not affected by any consideration paid or
rendered for the grant.
The prohibition of titles of nobility stops the claim of eminent domain through fictions of law. Eminent domain is the legal euphemism for expropriation, and unreasonable seizure given sanction by the targets of this amendment.
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