Government corruption can take place at three levels.
at the international level, this involves the acts of government using tax payers money to advance selfish interests of those in powers. It also includes participating in scams,piracy and infringements of copyrights rights, and also funding and receiving money from internationally proscribed groups such as drug lords and terrorists.
at the departmental level, it touches on tendering processes as well as in the justice systems,and the police.
at the citizen level, it involves, fostering a culture of impunity and bribery between it and the citizens.
C Northern Africa becomes a United country
True, the revolutions of the 1848 springtime of people succeeded.
It's C, because feds are for the, powerful big federal union centralized "american" national government.
This contradicts D, so it can not be D, since feds were NOT the kind of people to say. "Hey stop !!! The American government is bullying my Virginia." No virigina does not have soveringy in the eyes of feds. The USA is the powerful nation holding the states - The alliance of states is stronger than the individual power of states.
It's important to recognize that some colonists and early Americans did not see them selves as together as one. " We are not Americans as a nation, but only a region." Like Europe with all their different states and nations.
It also says all past " But if the union...." Obvious for what I think.
The south fought the civil war because they tried to secede from the union after Abraham Lincoln was elected