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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. Why do liberals believe this and what are its implications This familiar saying originated as a comment in a letter written by Lord Acton and had become the basis for Liberal thinking. that power has the potenial to have a corrupting affect on people. This has been constantly illustrated through history. For example Liberals believe institutions such as the monarchy and church have dominated society without allowing them progress through rational and logical means. Much of the impetus for libertarianism in the seventeenth century was a reaction against monarchs and aristocrats who lived off the productive labor of other people. Modern libertarians defend the right of productive people to keep what they earn, against a new class of politicians and bureaucrats who would seize their earnings to transfer them to nonproducers. Liberals believe that power corrupts since people start to...

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