1. It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
4 \- \% I0 k" M' E2. There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws.
" L$ g4 q' H3 v; U5 L$ N/ `3. To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.& U! A6 V% `8 y' r r5 ] [9 \1 H
4. It is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician.
0 F7 ` e' ?" m {- O& Q5. Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other.) v/ |/ j+ c6 n0 R
6. Laws should not be stationary and fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places.+ w, Z/ W& A' O3 l8 @" [9 G
7. The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus. |
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