Sugar cane plantations in the colonies of the West Indies. The older Sugar and Molasses tax charged the customer a duty of 6 pence per gallon of molasses. The bribe to customs officials per gallon of smuggled molasses was 1.5p. The new Sugar Act lowered the duty to 3p per gallon. The British wrongly assumed that Americans would be willing to accept the newly reduced tax. The smuggling continued until 1766 when the tax was lowered to one pence, making it cheaper to legally pay the tax than to smuggle.
The President and Vice President of the United States are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of 538 presidential electors from the fifty states and Washington, D.C. . Presidential electors are selected on a state-by-state basis, as determined by the laws of each state.
The electoral college is often considered to be an outdated system  of popular voting. It requires a state population to select  electors to vote for them for a candidate. â¦ Electors represent  part of the population of the state, and they are selected by their  respective political parties.venutally, they began the electoral college. This is made up of 535 members of Congress. Each state electors are based on the population of that state (which can change with census) and there are two sets of electors.