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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 [[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.

== A critical analysis ==

== A critical analysis ==

The most obvious objection to the Directive is that it is the sort of order that only a [[dictator]] would give. It constitutes a "deprivation of property without due process of law" and arguably a denial of "equal protection of the laws." (See [[Amendment XIV]].)This was especially true of the requirement that all persons "report" to the Unification Board for a federally mandated job assignment when they reached the age of majority.

The most obvious objection to the Directive is that it is the sort of order that only a [[dictator]] would give. It constitutes a "deprivation of property without due process of law" and arguably a denial of "equal protection of the laws." (See [[Full Text of the United States Constitution#Amendment XIV|Amendment XIV]].)This was especially true of the requirement that all persons "report" to the Unification Board for a federally mandated job assignment when they reached the age of majority.

As a practical matter, it was an attempt to interfere with the "creative destruction" that takes place in any system of [[capitalism]], without regard to anyone's cash-flow positions. If those positions were negative, then very likely an individual or businessman would rapidly find himself ever deeper in debt. But instead of dealing solely with a [[bankruptcy]] judge, a person in that situation would ''also'' have to do with the Unification Board. If "one bad general is better than two good generals who argue," then that is doubly true of courts, boards, or judges.

As a practical matter, it was an attempt to interfere with the "creative destruction" that takes place in any system of [[capitalism]], without regard to anyone's cash-flow positions. If those positions were negative, then very likely an individual or businessman would rapidly find himself ever deeper in debt. But instead of dealing solely with a [[bankruptcy]] judge, a person in that situation would ''also'' have to do with the Unification Board. If "one bad general is better than two good generals who argue," then that is doubly true of courts, boards, or judges.