Bribery is a tempting and too-often effective way to cut through red tape and win contracts in nations with insufficient monitoring mechanisms. Corruption is pandemic, and nations everywhere need to address the threat it poses. To put an end to corruption, the people should exercise sovereignty and call for constitutional reform to implement democratic rule of law. This means separation of powers and checks and balances as well as free election campaigns for candidates to cutsymbiotic ties between government and business that engender corruption. Seethe Charter for Permanent Peace and Development for more. §1.9 §1.10 §5.1 §6.1 §6.10