It might be interesting to collect some of the suttas that refer to such things:
This would include several of those in Chapter IV of In the Buddha’s Words:
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Bhante, Thank you for your comment here:
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Thanks for sharing. And here is, Bhante Sujato recent essay on ‘Monks and politics’
http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=8%2C12328%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C0#.VWpyF8u6bqC
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