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I saw an interesting note on www.boston.com:
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Tribe, Eisen, and Painter noted that the Emoluments Clause was viewed so important for the country that the Constitution was nearly amended in the early 1800s to add a severe punishment for anyone who dared to violate it:

Indeed, the Clause was seen as so important that the Eleventh Congress considered, as a proposed Thirteenth Amendment, a provision stating that a person would lose his or her citizenship by accepting an office or emolument from a foreign power. The proposed amendment was, in a modified form, accepted by both Houses, and subsequently obtained the approval of all but one of the requisite number of States.

The proposed amendment ultimately failed, they wrote, because officials at the time decided such an extreme punishment was “unnecessary, given existing protections.”
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What would have happened if this amendment had passed? Would there have been much of an effect prior to this election?
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