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 …
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