Well, if the practise was done by our Founders, and I suspect it was practised by those who wrote the Constitution, then as a conservative constitutionalist I deem it constitutional.
You may, like the Supreme Court often does, spit upon the judgement of our Founders and reject their practises.
I did not say it was practiced by the Founders. Do you have anything backing up such a contention you stated?
Conducting such covert maneuver does not sound like the open and straightforward way the Founders operated.