Footnotes

1 http://www.medicaljustice.com/

2 There are, of course, other definitions, each overlapping this one in varying degrees.

3 This explains the increase in value of the deal involving the diamond and rifle in the example in Chapter 2.

4 Also, conciliation, consultation, facilitation, imposition, intervention, and rent-a-judge.

5 Rough envisions a Constitutional amendment establishing a national Wisdom Council of 24 randomly selected registered voters who would meet for a week to consider issues it chooses and to determine consensus statements it would present to all of The People in a State of the Union message before disbanding permanently. Presumably, Rough would facilitate the meetings, embedding a lifetime job for himself in the US Constitution.

6 For example, former Vice President Gore and MoveOn.Org founder Joan Blaces on the left and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and Christian Coalition President Roberta Combs on the right.