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
Until now, the issue of what constitutes an illegal emolument has never been litigated.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2018
In aristocratical republics the citizens of one town are not contented with being sovereigns collectively, unless they individually appropriate all offices of honour or emolument.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
