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Memory and warning in political corruption
The Monitor laments public figures who profit from plunder and luxury while the state crumbles. It warns that empowering corrupt leaders and tolerating amorous or riotous elites endangers the constitution and invites future Catilines. It cites Richard III Cromwell James II Gaveston Dudley Strafford Walpole as cautionary precedents.
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Richard III
Cromwell
James II
James I
Gaveston
Dudley
Strafford
Walpole