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Bayard

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11. That pesky Foreign Emoluments Clause can just be ignored

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Jan 22, 2026, 01:24 PM

7 hrs ago

"The Articles of Confederation, America’s first national constitution, apparently borrowing from the Dutch, included a provision in Article VI stating: “[N]or shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any King, Prince or foreign State.”

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/759

More grounds for impeachment in plain sight. George Washington and the gang said so.

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