...satisfied, and referred the subject to a new committee, who reported in favor of adopting the style of " his Highness the President of the United States, and Protector of their Liberties." A long and animated debate ensued in the House, when a proposition was made to appoint a new committee...

...Washington was as gravely cautious as any one. Ellsworth's committee would have called the President " his Highness, the President of the United States, and Protector of their Liberties," and the House of Representatives threw out the proposal with successful ridicule. But at this time...

...to the front an already mooted question, by what title should the chief magistrate be addressed ? A senate committee reported in favor of addressing him...the United States and Protector of their Liberties." It is said that Washington would not have been unwilling to accept some such title. But the democratic...

...was a member of a committee of three of the Senate reporting that the President ought to be addressed as, " His Highness, the President of the United States and Protector of Their Liberties." 58 This proposed title, so strongly smacking of monarchism, was rejected by the House of Representatives....

...republican spirit appeared in the debate on titles. The Senate would have preferred to address the President as " His Highness, the President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties " ; but the House insisted on having the plain title, " President of the United States." Even before...

...republican spirit appeared in the debate on titles. The Senate would have preferred to address the President as " His Highness, the President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties " ; but the House insisted on having the plain title, " President of the United States." Even before...

...work to devise some style of address more novel and dignified," wrote John Armstrong on the 7th. " His Highness the President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties " was proposed ; also, " His Serene Highness," and " High Mightiness." After mature consideration it...

...momentous a committee had been appointed to decide it. It was settled by them that the title should be "His Highness the President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties." The House, however, objected to such a long prefix and rejected it, and the question was never settled....

...over the question of the title which should be given to the president. The Senate proposed to call him "His Highness, The President of the United States and Protector of their Liberties," but the House insisted upon the simple designation "The President of the United States." The Senate...

...drawn-out debate, the Senate humorlessly recommended to the House that the officeholder be addressed as "His Highness, the President of the United States and Protector of the Rights of Same." This absurd imitation of the title bestowed on the British monarch was immediately...