There's an old saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's the basic idea. City officials were (and in some cases still are) because they can. They distribute enough favors to their constituents that very few people oppose them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_local_government
A)How did corruption in city government grow? B) How did people react to this corruption?
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