| Show "metaphysics" people then meat something like philosophy or truths you could recognize just by thinking about them Wood answered along these lines: The physicist has an idea The more be thinks it through the more sense it seems to make He goes to the scientific literature and the more he reads the more promising the idea seems Thus prepared he devises an experiment to One was that there was no limit on the number of terms the President could serve This Jefferson feared was away for a President to become a king in fact if not in laW The other major deficiency was the absence of a bill of rights The citizen—the average as insufficiently protected thought from the inevitable abuses of those in power In 1791 with James Madison playing a leading role the first ten amendments were added to the Constitution From the beginning they were called the Bill of Rights The Constitution the Bill of Rights and the subsequent amendments were a new force in the world—a government with a written set of rules that distribute political power among the various segments of the society with specific machinery not just vaguely allowing but actually protecting the expression of unpopular ideas It was a machine of government designed to correct itself—like the evolutionary process adzpting to changing environments the idea out The experiment is painstaking Many possibilities are checked The accuracy of measurement is refined At the end of all this work however the idea is shown to be worthless The physicist discards it frees his mind from the clutter of error and moves Lest on to something else The difference between physics and metaphysics Wood concluded is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory Now humans are not electrons or laboratory rats But every act of Congress every Supreme Court decision every National Security Directive of the President is an experiment Even change in economic policy every increase in funding for Head Start every toughening of criminal sentences is an experiment Communism in Eastern Europe the Soviet Union and China was an experiment Japan and West Germany investing a great deal in science and technology and next to nothing on defense was an experiment Ideas can be tested Some of the opponents of the US Constitution insisted that it would never work that a republican form of government spanning a continent with "such The Congitution is a dating and coma-gendocument because it allows for continuous change—even of the form of government itself—if the people so wish Because no one is wise enough to foresee which ideas may prove useful and answer urgent societal needs—even if they've been counterintuitive and disquieting in the past—it guarantees the fullest and freest expression of views There is of course a price Most of us us are for freedom of expression when there's a danger that our own views will be suppressed We're not all that upset though if views we bate encounter a little censorship here and there But within certain narrowly circumscribed limits—Justice Holmes' example was dissimilar climates economies morals polities and peoples" as George Clinton of New York said was impossible that such a government and such a Constitution as Patrick Henry of Virginia declared "contradicts all the experience causing panic by falsely crying "fire" in a crowded theater—great liberties are permitted in America Even if they mock values—even if they ridicule everything most of us hold dear—devilworshipers (if there are any) are entitled to practice their religion so long as they break no law Those who oppose abortion are fire to picket the abortion clinics and to display pictures of mangled fetuses as long oldie world" The experiment was vied anyway Even a casual scrutiny of history reveals that we humans have a sad tendency to make the same mistakes again Judaeo-Christian-Isla- and again Having power tends to corrupt us We're afraid of strangers or anybody who's a little different from us When we get scared we start pushing people around We have readily accessible but- tons that release powerful emotions when pressed- - 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