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 foreign emolument prohibition covers anything of value from a foreign government.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2018

“Sundry base and wicked persons,” Washington called the merchants, “preferring their own, present private emolument to their country’s weal.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2018

They were dissatisfied by discovering that while he wished to obtain a provision for his son, he desired also that some emolument, sufficient for his own wants, should come to himself.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous