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On top of every other diatribe about this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it turns out that Obama may not (yet) accept it under the U.S. Constitution.
Specifically, Article I, Section 9:
This has already come up, twice. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is chosen by Norway's Storting (parliament), and has thus been ruled as acting as a "foreign State". But both Teddy Roosevelt (for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War) and Woodrow Wilson (for founding the League of Nations, which shouldn't have earned anybody anything) got Congressional Consent to accept their awards.
Barack Obama may yet.
But he hasn't got it yet.
What say we at least pretend that we have a Constitutional government and introduce the measure in Congress, mm-kay?
Specifically, Article I, Section 9:
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.
This has already come up, twice. The Nobel Peace Prize committee is chosen by Norway's Storting (parliament), and has thus been ruled as acting as a "foreign State". But both Teddy Roosevelt (for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War) and Woodrow Wilson (for founding the League of Nations, which shouldn't have earned anybody anything) got Congressional Consent to accept their awards.
Barack Obama may yet.
But he hasn't got it yet.
What say we at least pretend that we have a Constitutional government and introduce the measure in Congress, mm-kay?
