emolument

• “To be true to their own interests they must be false to those of their constituents, for with a lobby backed by THE MONEYED RINGS, corporations and syndicates, emolument is theirs if they will but reciprocate.”

  Laws Direct from Voters

• “The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.”

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• “Without ‘been’, the clause can be interpreted as the active voice where the emolument is the subject.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » New Justice Department Opinion on the Ineligibility Clause (Sometimes Also Called the Emoluments Clause):

• “Yesterday's term was emolument, which is defined as:”

  Define That Term #28

• “But then, he was gaining in popularity, and what did it matter if his office was filled to overflowing with exotic paraphernalia, he was reaching that apex to which he had aspired, and the emolument was a mere bagatelle.”

  Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

• “The employments in the President's gift count by thousands throughout the whole country, and of course a new President means so many thousand people struggling to retain, and so many thousand people struggling to obtain, office, i.e., emolument, that is to me one of the worst features of the whole system, and one of the most fruitful of mischief and political degradation ....”

  Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

• “Having found myself rather worse, these two or three last days, I was obliged to take some ipecacuanha last night; and, what you will think odd, for a vomit, I brought it all up again in about an hour, to my great satisfaction and emolument, which is seldom the case in restitutions.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works

• “Those who have been once intoxicated with power and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “The Maintenance Act provides mechanisms for the enforcement of maintenance orders, such as emolument attachments, attachment of property and garnishee orders.”

  December 2005

• “The "emolument" derived from this second edition at last enabled her to pay her debts, and to put out a small sum upon interest.”

  Woman in American Literature

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