The Fall Of The Duke Of Duval Summary

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The book The Fall of the Duke of Duval is a political book that is describing how a county comes upon a such demanding corrupted system creating it's own set of rules into the system that's breaking the law and is not allowing the citizens to be all equal. The Parr family were the one's behind this madness in the early 1900's, only soon to be investigated by FBI and investigators that worked and followed the family's moves. As really suspicious activity among them showed upon the trails they left coming from the IRS, money frauds, and election frauds. Parrs and what their corrupted system's were demanding and committing types of frauds. Crimes that were being committed from the Parrs were able to control the territory's they owned dominant …show more content…

Yes it may be that people in these types of positions needed to be recognized so they try to look for every possible way to make a name for themselves, the uncertain way of doing so. Politics seem that they'll do just about anything to get where they are at and if satisfying the potential people who can get them to where they need are able to stick along with them and then slowly become part of a corrupted system. My thoughts on how politically there is systems which are corrupted should be viewed on the positions that cause false/wrong information as being put in such high power can really put an effect on peoples lives that the people who are in charge might not even know/care for the situation that has been caused, brining bigger problems to the table even amongst themselves. That's why keeping a close eye out for positions that come with this type of system should require a view on their process that everything that is being caused. If the "boss rule" were tried to be used among today's society it seem a little harder for that kind of access to be …show more content…

Once gained the controlled power to do all what's possible to keep it that way as a paragraph in page 28 explains, "As reminder of his power, he stationed armed deputy sheriffs at the polls to discourage independent-minded voting. Illiterate voters were given marked ballots to drop into the ballot box, or their ballots were marked for them by election officials." There were people along side who knew what the Parr's were up to and due to all the frauds being done those people did not want to count them in. Which worked out better for the Parr's back in the day with politics not being a big factor the way it is in todays society. Especially committing elections frauds, when back then people did not think politics would commit these types of frauds due to where they stand in their position. People never expected to do such a thing and when called out on it the attorney's they had were some of the best to get them out of the situation they got themselves in. Which comes to believe that back then the access to commit the type of crime in the political system came more easier than what it would have to come with in todays role to pull frauds like that off in the political system. The power today is split, which limits what the system may and may not due. It puts politicians in their place limiting their access to which they once had. It divides each of them and must go

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