Corruption in government By Henry Lamb It isn't the toe-tapping
in public restroom stalls. It isn't the bundles of cash stashed
in the freezer. Salacious sex scandals and the sale of influence
are superficial symptoms of corrupt individuals. Individuals can
be replaced. The corruption that permeates Congress may have no
cure. The structure of Congress may have been an unintended
consequence of political compromise in the heated debate in the
hot Philadelphia summer of 1787. In retrospect, many call its
creation by the U.S. Constitution nothing short of Providence.
The reality is that the structure provided the best possible
arena for ideas to be hammered, shaped, and polished into public
policies for the people of America. The delegates to that now-
famous Constitutional Convention were as diverse in their views
as were the people they represented. They were bound together by
two common bonds: the determination to shed the tyranny of a
dictatorial government, and the desire to construct a new
government on the