And when the public is corrupt?

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Detail from “Corrupt Legislation’’ (1896), by Elihu Vedder, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

  • Three New Englanders on corruption:

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well".

  • John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".

  • Henry David Thoreau: "The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that they are thieves".

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