2 should be 1 because prevention of capture is primary. The American Experiment, in-so-far as it wasn't itself colonial, was the best governance experiment ever tried at scale in recent history, but it didn't go far enough and was quickly overrun by less rational, more selfish interests. Also 2 & 3 are aspects of the same thing.
I am an enemy of the open society.
2 should be 1 because prevention of capture is primary. The American Experiment, in-so-far as it wasn't itself colonial, was the best governance experiment ever tried at scale in recent history, but it didn't go far enough and was quickly overrun by less rational, more selfish interests. Also 2 & 3 are aspects of the same thing.