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Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… was always problematic. The danger was codified in the US constitution of 1788-9: Zephyr Teachout, ‘Gifts, Offices, and Corruption’, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (n° 107, 2012), pp. 30-54; Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United (2014), article 1, section 9, clause 8 … as customary but also sold them for their private profit, something that his prosecutor Charles Trevelyan regarded as corruption. 16 By the early nineteenth century critics of East India Company rapacity used the Indian word ‘loot’ to …Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… of that People, and the Affectation of some late Authors to introduce and multiply Cant Words, which is the most ruinous Corruption in any Language.’ 4 As for Johnson, his dictionary was explicitly presented as an attempt to save the English … under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance; resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion; and exposed to the corruption of ignorance, and caprices of innovation.’ (Johnson, ‘Preface’) Fashion was therefore deemed susceptible to …Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Satirical prints and songs about the zebra were produced as symbolic representations of the royal political rivalry and corruption. The connection between the Queen and her female zebra was so notable that a humorous allegorical song was … This social place of attraction supposed to amaze and amuse the crowd became unexpectedly a space of criminality and corruption attracting numerous pickpockets. Despite these mass crimes which occurred at the stables of Buckingham Palace …Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Goldsmith and Charles Churchill are among the authors in the second half of the century who deplored the marketized corruption of the prevailing system, and idealized the ‘good’ patronage of the past. Goldsmith in his Enquiry was … Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2006). Peck, Linda Levy, Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990). Tadmor, Naomi, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century …Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… as a form of bribery (an act of 1696 sought to clamp down on ‘treating’ in a vain attempt to rid elections of corruption), and they were hostile to the subsidies increasingly offered by the Treasury for government-favoured … Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001). Chalus, Elaine, ‘Kisses for Votes: The Kiss and Corruption in Eighteenth-century English Elections’, in Karen Harvey (ed.), The Kiss in History (Manchester: Manchester …Pagination
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