Corporatism, and management by corporate methods, is a very poor political system in many ways. The sorry fact is that not a lot of thought has been given to the differences. Those who work for a large corporation -- while they are free not to do so -- are somewhat enchattled by that bond -- their life hangs at the mercy of a bad opinion.

We tried to build something better in the American constitution, recognizing that the chaos of human opinion was sometimes volatile and reprehensibly loose in its loyalty to good principle. We tried to address this condition by building the best universal principles of human rights into the COnstitution. Unfortunately, especially under Neo-conservatism, these principles have not been held to their traditional importance, but have been treated as inconvenient after-thoughts, and badly slighted.

The vow to uphold the Constitution is almost meaningless in its current context. Anyone who, as Bush does, thinks it should be a vehicle for enforcing moralisms about the nature of private arrangements like marriage is too ignorant of its nature to be entrusted with it.

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