Were they themselves corporations? Did they avoid taxes using a double Irish strategy? Do tell, this alternate history is becoming more interesting every second.
They had a fucking revolution over EVADING taxes by buying tea from places other than England. They weren't avoiding taxes, they were putting guns in peoples faces covering them in tar and then feathers, throwing all the taxed tea in the ocean and then proceeding to conduct their business however they saw fit, government be damned.
So yeah, in this alternate history the Founders are a lot more fucking bad ass than Apple, going so far as to commit treason to avoid taxes. (Thankfully they won so the whole treason thing was moot)
Then they teamed up with the French to cause all sorts of problems for the English King, they probably would have gotten Ireland to fuck with the English too if they weren't already doing all they could to fuck up England. They would have called it a double irish spit roast.
And now getting back to writs, you might want to see that they created the 4th fucking amendment to give a big middle finger to England being able to issue a writ for whatever the fuck they wanted.
So we don't really have to ask what the founders would have thought because they told us directly. They were so gung ho on fucking with government that they even said if this revolution doesn't work out, have another one, because why the fuck not, and created the second amendment so that if anyone wanted to put guns in people faces again to evade taxes they could.
If they were alive today they'd probably be helping Apple smuggle untaxed iPhones from China free from any sort of government restriction.
