nobility

“I believe deeply in the nobility of your work, in what you do every day to keep this city safe, in your commitment, and in your sacrifice,” she wrote.

As does the Constitution, which forbids the federal government and the states from granting any “title of nobility.”

Radical new measures that included abolishing the nobility were introduced to keep the revolution alive.

Merchants could suddenly earn fortunes rivaling the landholding nobility, and strange ideas could undermine intellectual elites.

She makes references to King Kalakaua, Queen Lili’uokalani and other Hawaiian nobility few in a mainland audience are likely to know.