This is exemplary of a tendency organizations have: prioritizing existence of the organization over the values the organization was formed to uphold. The US wa

This is exemplary of a tendency organizations have: prioritizing existence of the organization over the values the organization was formed to uphold. The US was ostensibly formed to preserve the rights of its citizens. If we let people exercise those rights, they may dissolve the union. But if we don't let them exercise those rights in order to preserve the union, the union loses its entire purpose; the union as it was intended is destroyed just as surely as if it were dissolved.