The documents reveal a concerted effort by America’s earliest corporate power brokers to curry favor with the Constitution’s framers during the 1787 Constitutional Convention all the way through the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, with delegates having been pampered with gifts such as expensive pocket watches, casks of fine Caribbean molasses, and extravagant quail-hunting trips to the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
“These lobbyists knew full well that if you wanted first-rate treatment for your patrons in Providence or Charleston, you made sure that gilded ivory walking canes found their way to the delegates gathered in Philadelphia,” he added.
. “Where is the beaver pelt lobby ?”
MOOD
This kinda happened in a way with southern plantation owners and the 3/5ths compromise
As The Onion show a painting of the presentation of the Declaration of Independence. Details, details.
Lobbyists giving politicians gifts and money should be stopped. Its essentially bribery.
This is unironically true, in a way.
FFS.
Bit late.
Hey look the Smash Bros envelope. This confirms they are anime swordsman
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the founding fathers would be rolling (around in heaps of money) in their graves!!