Actually, the convention of capitalization in old english that you
identify in the quote from the constitution below is reserved for nouns.
As in German, all nouns are capitalized. I don't know when this was
changed.

Lucia

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Gregg M Burton wrote:

> Well at least I don't Capitalize Letters in the Middle of Words!!! - :)
> What I actually do it Capitalize Words while I writing that I feel
> should stand out and that's the way it was sort of done back around the
> Time of the Birth of Our Country - At least as we know it today.

> For example, here's a couple excerpts from the Constitution for the
> United States of America:

> Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1:
> No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant
> Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make
> any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass
> any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the
> Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.