Episode 8: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8

It is not likely that many of us have dropped a reference to the Constitution’s emoluments clause into casual conversation. But the once obscure clause is now just one more thing Donald J. Trump has brought to the center of American politics. The founding fathers wrote the prohibition against “emoluments” – gifts, advantages, benefits – into the Constitution because they were profoundly concerned about foreign influence damaging the nation. That old concern is new again.

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Episode 8: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 is an episode from Many Things Considered by Marc Johnson.

This episode is 39:16 long.

This episode was published on Jan 18, 2017.

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