SharkHunter wrote:Not sure I agree, my best assessment of the SL is something like the how court cases and legislation based on the Commerce Clause in the U.S. constitution has extended the reach of the federal government WAY beyond what the designer's originally intended. The analogy of the Mandarin's sitting on top of the "connections between the star systems" used in an earlier post fits my thoughts about "misusing the Commerce Clause to do the dirty work" of federalizing the money stream(s).cthia wrote:I greatly resisted posting this, but alas, low intestinal fortitude.
The Solarian League reminds me more of something "glamorized" in Alvin Toffler's Furure Shock. It exhibits most of its main characteristics and almost all of its downsides.
An Adhocracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
For example, if at any point post diaspora/Warshaski sail the "trans-stellars" are deemed as "too big to fail", like banks were in this last economic go round, doesn't that mean that from that point forward in the Honorverse, Pandora's box was open for business? Thoughts?
In large part the extension of the Commerce clause in the Constitution is due to the overly broad language in the 14th admendment, which extended Federal control in a LOT of ways that the original framers never contemplated.