ABSTRACT
The ethical foundation of the United States is that government by the common people is the highest form of government humans can design. Democratic organizations are made up of people, and people are "free" teleological; they want things, they are motivated, they change their purposes, and in general their behavior can be explained by what they are trying to accomplish. If the aim is to serve people best, a machine often seems the best way to do it. This is one reason why we have large government bureaucracies and much government regulation. Often those who criticize government regulations are on the side of the greedy, which kill community in Gerald Heard 's sense whenever they can. Government regulation is a symptom of something wrong, not a cause. The cause is that we have not yet learned how to create the communal, unselfish democracy that will make regulations superfluous.
