In a general sense, corruption occurs due to human imperfection. Governments are as imperfect as the humans who create them. More specifically corruption occurs when the general, public interest is in a conflict with private or individual interests. Unfortunately, it is extremely easy for many types of government to become corrupt and democratic republicanism is not the exception. It usually happens when powerful individuals enter government in order to further their own agendas in detriment of the public good. Most of these men regroup in order to strengthen their position and bribe or silence those who oppose them. They manipulate public opinion with the help of other financially powerful groups and encourage policies and the creation of laws that advance their own profits while causing harm to the overall constituents. Sometimes the corruption is ideological and usually is both. Most times, ideological reasons are actually a façade for plain and simple greed and power hunger which is more pathological than intellectual.
With regards to the Harding Administration, domestic policy was very similar to the domestic policies of the current administration. Harding did not indulge in nepotism but in cronyism, which is sort of “<u>nepotism for friends</u>”. As a business man in Ohio he had built an extensive network of friends within his own company and other companies. This allowed him to organize with them to further their own interests. The fact that he controlled a journal was also part of the issue as he used his journal to shape public opinion at the state and local level. When he became president of the USA, he brought with him many friends that he appointed in several positions of power in the federal government and his cabinet. Some of them turned out to be quite efficient and respected but many others were quite mediocre and belonged to Harding’s business circles back in Ohio. The best example of this is the Teapot Dome Scandal. Where members of his cabinet were Harding’s Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was convicted of taking bribery from oil companies yet no oil company executive was ever convicted for the bribery. This person was part of what was then called The Ohio Gang.
In Sikhism, the five Ks or kakkars or kakke are the five articles of faith worn by all baptised Sikhs. The 5 Ks taken together symbolisz that the Sikh who wears them has dedicated themselves to a life of devotion and submission to the Guru. The 5 Ks include the following: Kesh (uncut hair), Kara (a steel bracelet), Kanga (a wooden comb), Kaccha - also spelt, Kachh, Kachera (cotton underwear), and Kirpan (steel sword).
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Equality for all people
Sense or community
A. It refers to the way people embrace the environment, cultural diversity, and the idea that by working together they can solve problems. Identity is a set of traits or characteristics of a person, people or thing that allow to distinguish it from others in a set, and that is what best describes the concept of Northwest identity.
The declarations of the letter to the U.S. Congress by the economists concerning the bailouts are evidently specified the disagreement of the source of the letter about the GM bailout. The document stated that the bailout would disrupt the notion of free market in U.S. and that it will break the people who held in the free market (Velasquez, 2012). Also, the bailout and government interference will shift the free market economy into socialism (ibid). The economists and other parties which is convoluted in the making of the letter, sustained the free market economy. They do not approve on government interruption as it disrupts the mechanism of the market that is free of any interference particularly from the government. The sources of the letter thought that it was GM’s own accountability to bail itself out of the insolvency. The bankruptcy was a consequence of bad management of the company and it was its own accountability to resolve the matter. The interference by the government will move the market mechanism. The bailout will disturb the equal right of the people of life, freedom, and possessions as what John Locke’s notion. Furthermore, government meddling will also lower the public’s safety based on Adam Smith’s theory.
