1. The Pathway to Corruption
How is it possible for corrupt individuals to maintain stability and govern? ... According to Machiavelli, "Where the individual are not corrupt, conflicts and other crises do no harm; where they are corrupt, the best-planned laws are useless, unless the laws are imposed by someone who uses ruthless methods to make people obey him, until the individuals themselves become good.... But once they citizens become corrupt this system became distress, for only the powerful proposed laws,but only in order to build up their own power"(p.128). ... The power stands with the masses, if you can...
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