The Emolument Clauses Trivia Quiz

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"For most of its history, courts have rarely substantively analyzed or interpreted the Foreign Emoluments clause. During the first administration of President Donald Trump, however, a number of private parties, state attorneys general, and Members of Congress sued the President based on alleged violations of both the Foreign Emoluments Clause and the Domestic Emoluments Clause (collectively, the Emoluments Clauses). Three major federal lawsuits concerning the Emoluments Clauses were filed against President Trump. Over nearly four years, these cases progressed through the lower federal courts, resulting in the first significant judicial decisions on the Emoluments Clauses.

"In late 2020, the Supreme Court denied review in one of these cases, and-after the end of President Trump's term in January 2021-instructed two federal appellate courts to vacate their judgments and dismiss the other two cases as moot. As a result, most of the lower court decisions on the Emoluments Clauses have been vacated."

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C8-3/ALDE_00013206/

"To preserve the President's independence from Congress and state governments, Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 provides that Congress may not increase or decrease the President's compensation during his term in office and further bars the President from receiving any other Emolument [beyond a fixed salary] from the United States, or any of them. Consequently, Congress cannot use its control over the President's salary to influence him; the provision accordingly reinforces the separation of powers. As Justice Joseph Story observed in his "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States", [a] control over a man's living is in most cases a control over his actions. The Domestic Emoluments Clause - unlike the Foreign Emoluments Clause - does not allow Congress to assent to the President receiving otherwise prohibited emoluments from the state or federal governments.

"Modeled after similar provisions in state constitutions, the Domestic Emoluments Clause received little attention at the Constitutional Convention. In the Federalist No. 73, however, Alexander Hamilton explained that the Domestic Emoluments Clause was intended to isolate the President from potentially corrupting congressional influence. Because the President's salary is fixed once for all each term, Hamilton commented, "Congress can neither weaken his fortitude by operating on his necessities, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice." Similarly, Hamilton explained that because neither the Union, nor any of its members, will be at liberty to give . . . any other emolument, the President will have no pecuniary inducement to renounce or desert the independence intended for him by the Constitution. Other Framers echoed this sentiment during the ratification debates."

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C7-1/ALDE_00000233/