Legal Opinion
United States v. James Winston Hayes
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 12, 2014No. 11-13678PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:.
“Corruption,” Edward Gibbon wrote more than two centuries ago, is “the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.” EdwaRd Gibbon, The HistoRY of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. II, Ch. XXI, at 805 (David Womersley ed., Penguin Classics 1995) [1781]. And so, although unfortunate, it is perhaps not surprising that, even today, people continue to pay bribes to government officials with the expectation that they will make decisions based on how much their palms have been greased, and not what they think is best for the constituents they serve.
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