Emoluments: what does the word mean?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. opening statement in amicus

People should take note of the first statement of the amicus brief:

When interpreting the Constitution’s text, courts "are guided by the principle that ‘[t]he Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning’.” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 576 (2008) (quoting United States v. Sprague, 282 U.S. 716, 731 (1931)).