Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… 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 … Bow of the Throne,-alias- the Begging Bow’, The British Museum, 1868,0808.5726, 1788. Thus long after gifts had been outlawed, they remained a problem. In Mughal India, subordinates offered tributes or nazr (offering) and received …
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