As the US Congress desperately scrambles to encourage the US President semi-secretly to to endorse assassination as a method of defence of against terrorism, (thereby sowing more dragons teeth...) the old description of the constitution of czarist Russia comes to mind: "absolutism moderated by assassination" The irony is that in the 21st century the global constitution is now clearly capitalism moderated by terrorism. They could do better. But there will be a price. Accountability. Chris Burford London
