Sentences with phrase «corrupted body politic»
It is a corrupted body politic that now abdicates its responsbility to bring broader political values such as justice into play.
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The first community to define an act as a crime set a precedent, making it possible that virtuous deeds might be criminalized by a corrupt body politic.
«When elected officials, like Daniel Halloran, not only corrupt themselves but, unseen, corrupt the body politic from within they undermine the public's confidence in a representative form of government,» said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a statement.
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This has resulted in creating social mechanisms which are uncontrollable, corrupt and which give birth to criminalisation of politics, degeneration of architecture and art in all forms, and the prevailing sickness of the body, mind and spirit.