Yes. People usually hire others to influence government officials. For example,we are told that in 2016 Taiwanese officials hired an American senator to set up a phone call with Donald Trump and the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen.
While you didn't provide us with any concrete answers, this relationship is something related to an alliance, but in reality isn't one because the smaller country is only doing this because they're afraid of repercusions.
He finds Eugene on a bus. The only seat available is next to them.
They knew that people were going to change, and that the Constitution had to change with them. In order to be a working document, it had to be changed to reflect what was going on. At the same time they wanted changes to be taken seriously so they made it difficult to change things.
