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Credo of modern American Government: Public choices must be preset by specific legal dictates wherever possible. Officials are not allowed to make practical choices, and must act in ways that are nonsensical and often counterproductive to public goals. Legal rigidity should in all cases trump efficiency, innovation, accommodation, and free choice. Individual responsibility should be avoided and replaced with legal dictates or processes, as set forth in the first sentence, above.

Philip K. Howard
The Rule of Nobody



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