The U.S. Constitution has emoluments clauses because the founders of the United States knew that government officials, elected and un-elected, could be bought. At the very beginning of a new country the risks, as the founders saw them, were foreign states and monarchs who had the means to provide these gifts and payments and thus establish quid pro quo. The truth is, any quid pro quo with any government official is a risk to the country, and as we are now living that danger is greater now from within. If the United States is to have a self government future there must be an Emoluments Amendment added to the constitution.