A standard is doing strategic work when it is external to the holder's interests and shapes them, and is decorative when it is internal and merely reflects them. The observable difference is whether the standard has ever forbidden something the holder wanted.

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  an external frame of reference that shapes interests and actions, not, like Douglass's, and internal one that only reflects them. Lincoln's didn't arise from faith, or formal ethics, or even the law, a profession necessarily pragmatic in its pur

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