The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services,
a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished
during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he
shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from
the United States, or any of them.Article II, Section 1, Clause
7 This clause accomplishes two things: it establishes that the
President is to receive a "Compensation" that is unalterable
during the period "for which he shall have been elected;" and it
prohibits him within that period from receiving "any other
Emolument" from either the federal government or the states. The
proposition that the President was to receive a fixed
compensation for his service in office seems to have been
derived from the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, which
served as a model for the Framers in other respects as well. The
Constitutional Convention hardly debated the issue, except to
reject, politely but decisively, the elderly Benjamin Franklin's
proposal that the President sho