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== Explanation ==

== Explanation ==

* Point One served two purposes: to establish the Unification Board, and to require that all persons presently employed, stay employed in their present capacities. The age of twenty-one was selected because that was the voting age at the time. (The voting age remained at twenty-one until the first term of the [[Richard Nixon]] administration, during which time [[Full Text of the United States Constitution#Amendment XXVI|Amendment XXVI]] formally set the voting age at eighteen.)

# Point One served two purposes: to establish the Unification Board, and to require that all persons presently employed, stay employed in their present capacities. The age of twenty-one was selected because that was the voting age at the time. (The voting age remained at twenty-one until the first term of the [[Richard Nixon]] administration, during which time [[Full Text of the United States Constitution#Amendment XXVI|Amendment XXVI]] formally set the voting age at eighteen.)

 

# Point Two was a direct response to the phenomenon of people quitting and vanishing. This was the real reason for the economic decline, as the bureaucrats half suspected, half feared. Under this point, anyone who quit and vanished faced arrest, imprisonment, and expropriation of his assets.

* Point Two was a direct response to the phenomenon of people quitting and vanishing. This was the real reason for the economic decline, as the bureaucrats half suspected, half feared. Under this point, anyone who quit and vanished faced arrest, imprisonment, and expropriation of his assets.

# Point Three provided for the surrender of all intellectual property of any kind to the government. This point actually ''directed'' that holders of patents and copyrights ''voluntary'' surrender their rights, clearly an oxymoron.

 

# Point Four simply provided that no new inventions were to be introduced for the duration. Wesley Mouch and his associates regarded new inventions as destructive of people's livelihoods.

* Point Three provided for the surrender of all intellectual property of any kind to the government. This point actually ''directed'' that holders of patents and copyrights ''voluntary'' surrender their rights, clearly an oxymoron.

# Point Five attempted to freeze all industrial or commercial output at present levels. For the purpose of determining those levels, the Directive declared a very special [[fiscal year]] to be the year ending on the date of the Directive, which was May 1.

 

# Point Six attempted to freeze ''consumer spending'' at the levels seen in the fiscal year ending on the date of the Directive, as Point Five had done for business output.

* Point Four simply provided that no new inventions were to be introduced for the duration. Wesley Mouch and his associates regarded new inventions as destructive of people's livelihoods.

# Point Seven was an indefinite wage and price freeze.

 

# Point Eight, the "elastic point," vested in the Unification Board the power to decide, finally and not subject to appeal, any question not covered in Points One through Seven.

* Point Five attempted to freeze all industrial or commercial output at present levels. For the purpose of determining those levels, the Directive declared a very special [[fiscal year]] to be the year ending on the date of the Directive, which was May 1.

 

* Point Six attempted to freeze ''consumer spending'' at the levels seen in the fiscal year ending on the date of the Directive, as Point Five had done for business output.

 

* Point Seven was an indefinite wage and price freeze.

 

* Point Eight, the "elastic point," vested in the Unification Board the power to decide, finally and not subject to appeal, any question not covered in Points One through Seven.

== Modifications ==

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