3. The Most Promising Method of Securing a Virtuous and Morally Stable People is to Elect Virtuous Leaders.

We have current concerns about “moral jeopardy” in our political leadership. Requiring constituents to fund programs that are against their moral principles is one problem. There is also the “moral hazard” of forcing the public to absolve those involved in risky activities of responsibility. Forcing people to abandon their principles for political causes is an issue as important now as it was over 200 years ago.

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