p. 706: "The trust reposed in government is inherent in public office, which becomes raw power without it . . . The nature of bribery is contrary to the nature of the human person in its full development.

I venture a prediction: . . . The movement to restrict by law many forms of reciprocal exchange with officeholders incorporates the thrust of a dominant moral idea.

The conventions that give concreteness to the idea of the bribe will be refined and made responsive to the needs satisfied by human trust and human conformity to God's example."