Risk of bribery as a factor in deciding about constitutional structure:

The Framers, by the way, were apparently quite aware of the risk that bribes can undermine institutional decisionmaking, and saw the need to craft institutions in part to minimize the risk of such bribery. See, e.g., Federalist Nos. 22, 43, 57, 62, 66, 68, and 83. The analysis is instructive, I think, in deciding to what extent we should voluntarily submit our actions to the judgment of a Security Council where any other member can veto our actions.