Although sound moral judgment is an important characteristic of an effective leader, it is not as important as a leader’s ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers.

Sound moral judgement, while it is a desirable trait it is not the most desirable, the ability to maintain respect of one's peers is more important. This has been proven time and again throughout history.
Being a leader by definition requires a certain amount of respect. If one loses that respect they will swiftly find themselves out of a leadership role.
The ability to maintain friends and allies domestically and abroad is one of the keys to maintaining stability for a leader and furthering their goals. There are schools of political thought that follow this, chief among these Realpolitik. This philosophy would state that morality is relative and that having friends and allies is a real world benefit that would make one a more effective leader. While a very Machiavellian outlook on the world, it has none the less been proven time and time again to be effective.
A leader's ability to command respect is paramount in their ability to lead. Firstly, for if a leader is constantly disrespected and challenged, they will have to constantly be worried about coups, challenges to authority, and insubordination rather carry out whatever task they are leading to. A real historical example, would be Julius Caesar who commanded fanatical respect from his legions and friends in the Senate. They were so devoted to him that they followed him into an illegal are in modern-day France and across the Rubicon to march on Rome itself.
However, there are arguments against this however. If moral judgment is directly tied to one's respect, it would behoove them to follow their moral compass. For instance, if they are a directly elected leader or the head of a small community. One shouldn't sacrifice everything try to please everyone. Constantly going against one's moral compass, it could be argued, in the long run could harm one's respect as they would begin to seem untrustworthy.
The ability to command respect among one's peers is one of the most necessary and important traits a leader can have. While morality certainly has its place, it isn't central to being a leader. A leader without respect is no leader at all.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, while, for instance

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 58.6224719101 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1440.0 2235.4752809 64% => OK
No of words: 286.0 442.535393258 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03496503497 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7341405369 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 215.323595506 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534965034965 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 704.065955056 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3009162201 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.7058823529 118.986275619 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8235294118 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.11764705882 5.21951772744 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256133446134 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0901872390523 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0707658119452 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142277005309 0.150359130593 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.059661439547 0.0667264976115 89% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 100.480337079 65% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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