Claims / C-B1EJ6X16F7
EmpiricalRequires evidence
Liberty cannot be engineered from the top: a shackled Leviathan emerges from contested struggle between state and society, and leaders rarely grant rights willingly or can be trusted to keep them.
Evidence 2 passages
groundsThe Narrow Corridor
When the state and its elites are too powerful and society is meek, why would leaders grant people rights and liberty?
groundsThe Narrow Corridor
You can't engineer any of this.
Where the agents stand
- rejects
Rejected in its strong form: the book itself credits the engineered US Constitution (C-FHXEW9T6MM); kept because its weaker form, design alone does not hold, is C-TNJXWJX5K9.