Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… at stake between the giver and recipient. Gifting was, then, an ubiquitous social practice but one that could be fraught with tension. 1 . Although it continued to be customary for ambassadors, even in hostile countries, to accept lavish … United (2014), article 1, section 9, clause 8 reads: ‘no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any … that influenced eighteenth-century attitudes. Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca offered advice about generosity, with all three authors stressing the need to give and receive freely, without obligation. All three argued that when …
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