 | William Maclay - 1880 - 392 pages
...correct the minutes. At length the committee came in and reported a title — His Highness, the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Same. Mr. Few had spoke a word or two with me, and signified his unwillin'Tncss to do anything hastily. He... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 pages
...he interfered in a like manner." But the committee reported a title — His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Staffs. "This whole silly business," exclaims the indignant senator, "is the work of Mr. Adams and... | |
 | William Maclay - 1890 - 482 pages
...them miserably. At length the committee came in and reported a title — His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Same. Mr. Few had spoken a word or two with me, and signified his unwillingness to do anything hastily. He... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 512 pages
...title. . . . May 9th. ... At length the committee . . . reported a title — His Highness the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same, . . . but [May 14] ... in conformity to the practice of the other House, for the present, they [the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1892 - 466 pages
...place is the best chance in the wheel." He strongly sympathized with the democratic uprising in France, and was urgently opposed to the use of titles. In...Highness President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Same," he seems to have led the opposition. He attacked Adams for... | |
 | Richard Ellis, Aaron B. Wildavsky - 1989 - 260 pages
...foreigners." " Evidently the Senate agreed with Adams, proposing the title "His Highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same." During the Constitutional Convention Washington had expressed a preference for a similar title: "His... | |
 | DIANE Publishing Company - 1994 - 130 pages
...Executive. A Senate committee recommended that the President be addressed, "His Highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the rights of the same." In the House, a debate on the subject was climaxed by James Madison's recognition that the Constitution... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1924 - 568 pages
...by which the President should be addressed, and it finally voted for " His Highness, the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the same." Learning that the House would not concur in this title, the matter was dropped; but it was not until... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 pages
...chief executive: At length the committee came in and reported a title — His Highness, the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Same. Mr. Few had spoke a word ... I got up and expressed my opinion . . . Mr. Reed got up ... Mr. Strong... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 pages
...degree proportioned to them." He wanted the president's official title to be "His Highness the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the rights of the same." On another occasion he urged the title "His Most Benign Highness."28 Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton and... | |
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His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Same. 
