Editing Logrolling (section)

===Origins===
[[File:Davy Crockett by William Henry Huddle, 1889.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Davy Crockett by [[William Henry Huddle]], 1889.]]

The widest accepted origin is the old [[Norm (sociology)|custom]] of [[neighbourhood|neighbors]] assisting each other with the moving of logs. If two neighbors had cut a lot of [[timber]] that needed to be moved, it made more sense for them to work together to roll the logs.<ref>[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=log Online Etymology Dictionary]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/29/L0232900.html |title=logrolling. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 4th Edition. 2000 |access-date=9 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626113040/http://www.bartleby.com/61/29/L0232900.html |archive-date=26 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In this way, it is similar to a [[barn-raising]] where a neighbor comes and helps a family build their barn, and, in turn, that family goes and returns the favor, helping him build his. Here is an example of the term's original use:

<blockquote>"A family comes to sit in the forest," wrote an observer in 1835; "Their neighbors lay down their employments, shoulder their axes, and come in to the log-rolling. They spend the day in hard labor, and then retire, leaving the newcomers their good wishes, and a habitation."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYrJZLjgDmIC&pg=PA95|title=America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America|last1=Barnhart|first1=David K.|last2=Metcalf|first2=Allan A.|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=1999|isbn=0-618-00270-7|page=95}}</ref></blockquote>

American [[frontiersman]] [[Davy Crockett]] was one of the first to apply the term to legislation:

<blockquote>The first known use of the term was by [[member of Congress|Congressman]] [[Davy Crockett]], who said on the floor (of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]]) in 1835, "my people don't like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states that never kindle a fire on their own land."<ref>{{Cite book
| publisher = E. L. Carey and A. Hart
| last = Crockett
| first = Davy
| title = An account of Col. Crockett's tour to the North and down East: in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. His object being to examine the grand manufacturing establishments of the country; and also to find out the condition of its literature and its morals, the extent of its commerce, and the practical operation of "The Experiment"... 
| url = https://archive.org/details/accountofcolcroc00cro
|year=1835
}}</ref></blockquote>