• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    Text of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8.

    “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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        Or that the other branches of government haven’t abdicated their obligations for checks and balances. They’ve given him carte blanche to be a king in this country.