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-# A CONSTITUTION OF LIBERTY, TRUTH, AND HUMAN CAPACITY
+# A MANIFESTO OF LIBERTY, TRUTH, AND HUMAN CAPACITY
 
 ## PREAMBLE
 
-This constitution begins with the human person rather than with the institution, the machine, the market, the bureaucracy, or the ideology. Human beings create institutions and technologies because cooperation and invention allow people to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Those creations can preserve knowledge, extend human ability, coordinate work, protect property, connect communities, and relieve burdens. Their usefulness does not give them an unlimited claim upon the loyalty or allegiance of the people who made them or use them, nor does usefulness make total or unreserved dependence upon them desirable.
+This manifesto begins with the human person rather than with the institution, the machine, the market, the bureaucracy, or the ideology. Human beings create institutions and technologies because cooperation and invention allow people to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Those creations can preserve knowledge, extend human ability, coordinate work, protect property, connect communities, and relieve burdens. Their usefulness does not give them an unlimited claim upon the loyalty or allegiance of the people who made them or use them, nor does usefulness make total or unreserved dependence upon them desirable.
 
 Human creations remain human creations. They carry the limitations, assumptions, interests, errors, and ambitions of the people and communities who build and operate them. An institution can cease serving the purpose for which people joined it. A technical system can alter an activity until the requirements of the system become more important than the reason the activity was undertaken. A method adopted because it was useful can gradually become compulsory because every practical alternative has disappeared or has been eliminated.
 
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 ## On Technique
 
-The same caution applies to technique. *Technique*, as the word is used in this constitution, does not end with machinery. Technique means the tendency to identify the most efficient available means of accomplishing an objective and then to organize activity around that means. Technique can appear in machinery and software, but also in administration, management, economics, communication, education, politics, security, and social organization. Technology is one important expression of technique, but technology is not its whole extent.
+The same caution applies to technique. *Technique*, as the word is used in this manifesto, does not end with machinery. Technique means the tendency to identify the most efficient available means of accomplishing an objective and then to organize activity around that means. Technique can appear in machinery and software, but also in administration, management, economics, communication, education, politics, security, and social organization. Technology is one important expression of technique, but technology is not its whole extent.
 
 Efficiency, even when pursued to a high degree, can be valuable. Waste consumes time, resources, attention, and human effort. The danger appears when efficiency ceases to be one consideration among others and begins determining which ends are considered desirable, which human differences are treated as inconvenient or expendable, which relationships are dismissed as unnecessary, or which forms of coercion are accepted merely because coercion makes an objective easier to achieve. Efficiency can tell us that one means reaches an end faster or with fewer resources than another. Efficiency cannot tell us whether the end is worthy or whether anyone has the right to compel another person toward that end.