So a lawyer is a regent, so he/she is representing royalty. The term Esquire (translated to "shield bearer") or a "Gentlemen" in England was given to people of Nobility (Royalty) "A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses".
Today, if you look at the Constitution, the 13th amendment reads "
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
However in 1819 the amendment read differently "If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them." Sometime during the Civil War, the REAL 13th Amendment disappeared. Why? Read the next post about the BAR exam.....
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