Secrecy and Titles in the Term Paper

The KKK recognizes that power is a necessary ingredient in attracting people to its cause. They empower the hierarchal administrators with certain authorities over the membership, their states, and creates the personal sense of power that individuals who might not be otherwise competent or confident in their own abilities to nonetheless have an authority over others.

That the regions wherein the KKK operates, those states listed in its charter, are divided amongst the hierarchy administratively, creating a sense of ownership over the states. Certainly it must be the hope of the hierarchal administrators that they will one day have an opportunity to assert their authority beyond the limits of the organization. In fact, the very essence of this doctrine, the charter by which the organization operates and its secret nature, suggest that there is the anticipation that the infrastructure of the United States will breakdown, and that the "empire" will prevail by way of its cohesive organization and internal structures that they have created within the KKK.

The need for the KKK is defined by its interrogatory designed to prevent people who are supportive of equality amongst the races from accessing information or membership into the KKK. The secrecy and the titles are in and of themselves reflective of the intent of the organization to succeed the elected government of the United States, and to institute a pre-Civil War doctrine of either enslavement or genocide of nonwhites.Certainly this kind of agenda requires both secrecy, and the delusion of supremacy to accomplish that mission.

Reference List

Fleming, Walter L. (ed), the Ku Klux Klan, 1905, p.….....