First, we may at once observe that most of the goals incorporated in these public documents are too ambiguous to determine one line of conduct as against another. They are so vague, indeed, that whatever is actually done can be subsequently interpreted as consistent with the alleged goal. The Declarations call, often, for “freedom.” But “freedom,” by itself, is a term with no content whatsoever. There is no freedom “in general”—only freedom from certain things or for certain things, which always involves restrictions in other specific respects.
