Assertion: constitution's clause | /r/CapableOf | forbid fair transactions
Facets:
value: arguably
type: DEGREE
value: competitively
type: MANNER
value: with foreign states
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Arguably, as the legal scholar Laurence Tribe and others have suggested, the clause would forbid even competitively fair transactions with foreign states, because the profit accruing to the officeholder would fall within the ordinary meaning of “emolument,” and because such arrangements would threaten exactly the kind of improper influence that the clause was intended to prevent.