emolument
Example Sentences
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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 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
“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
The one would do it by gentle means--bribery, corruption, persuasion, and the soft stringents of exclusion from place, rank, and emolument.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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