emolument
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Article II, Section 1 and Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution prohibit the president in particular and public officials in general from receiving any emolument from domestic or foreign sources while in office.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024
District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rejected the DOJ’s narrow interpretation of what constitutes an emolument as “unpersuasive and inconsistent.”
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2019
The third judge on the panel, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., focused on what constitutes an illegal emolument.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
The domestic emolument prohibition prevents the president from getting anything of value from the government other than his official compensation.
From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2018
Other sources of emolument were—1st, gratuities, varying according to distance, from 1d. to 3d., on every letter he collected or delivered; and 2nd, what were technically called "Bye-letters."
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert
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The Constitution of the United States
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