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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Is his acceptance of the award in violation of Article 1 section 9 of the Constitution?


No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
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That is interesting, Skunkape but would that be more in line with a President being knighted or something like that ?


How about this point? He didn't get it for what he did, but for what they want him to do. For example, he wouldn't be able to sustain this "peace prize" if he sent more troops and escalated the Afghan war, but he would be for withdrawing our troops.

This is something that our Generals completely disagree with and maintain that they need more troops to complete the mission. Notwithstanding if one is against the war or not, but withdrawing from Afghanistan now would be detrimental to our national security and not in our national interest (yet). The deal to withdraw from Iraq was actually brokered with the Iraqi govt. when George Bush was in office, which Obama has nothing to do with whatsoever, but surely will take credit for it.
 
skunkape said:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">
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The Nobel comittee is none of those, so no. The language of the article is quite clear in that it is designed to guard against foreign rulers currying favours from the American president, not in the granting of meaningless awards by civilian groups.
 
It does also specify "accept any present" which is the only area I could see this being contestable, and a silly thing to contest...like the government doesn't wipe their ass with the Constitution on a thousand other levels.
If you wanted to be a strict Constitutionalist, you could say that the sushi George Bush, Sr. puked up in his lap in Japan was a present.:rolleyes:
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