"Philosophies of leadership are determined by beliefs about human nature." This means that how a leader governs is determined by what the leader believes about the human nature of his followers. In order to successfully lead a group of humans the leader needs to know his followers. He needs to know how his people will act, for example a kindergarten teacher needs to know when he or shes students will get bored and tired during the day in order to prevent the teacher loosing power over the students. He or she needs to make a schedule of activities and nap times to keep everything under control and to never let the students have the power to manipulate the schedule. I agree with this because all humans are exactly the same, selfish and greedy.In order to keep control of a society where all are selfish a third party or a dictatorship must be involved. In this case the teacher would be the dictator, who keeps all the power to his or herself so that the greedy students don't have any to abuse. When a third party or a dictatorship governs, the people have no power to get more than others so everything is equl.
"The governed have a responsibility for their governance." This conveys that the people have the power and the responsibility to take their leader out of power if he or she is abusing it. The people are responsible because they are the ones who chose this leader in a democracy. A real life example of this is the impeachment of the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson. Johnson was impeached on February 24th in 1868 by the House of Representatives which are like the followers in this scenario. Andrew Johnson was charged with eleven articles detailing high crimes and misdemeanors and was then taken out of power by a group of followers (the House of Representatives.) I don't personally believe the people have any rights to take a leader's power away at all. They can't hold the responsibility of this right when most of the time humans are greedy animals. If a group of people which may have the majority of opinions takes a leader out of power they could possibly be doing it for selfish reasons which is unfair to the minority that was benefiting from that leader. The bottom line is that all humans are selfish and greedy and don't have the capacity to take on such a responsibility such as this one.
"Human Nature does not determine our actions,it inclines us towards certain actions." This signifies that good things happen in a bad world and vise versa. We have all subconsciously thought of bad actions but not actually pursued them. Bad actions occur when people fight and loose to their human nature. An example of not pursuing bad actions would be if you got a bad grade and you were angry at the teacher. Your first and natural instinct is to scream and push your teacher but because of consequences you restrain. An example of someone loosing a fight against their human nature is a school shooting the shooter is usually bullied and cannot put up a fight against his natural instinct of getting revenge on the kids that inflict pain on him or her. Human nature is a complex thing, and although good things can happen bad events occur just as much and maybe even more.
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