The assassination of JFK changed everything, as it undermined the nation's devotion to the democratic ideal; the attacks of 9/11 changed everything, as those exquisite horrors marked a new era of coercion and deceit. The main theme of this revised and expanded edition of the 2017 pamphlet is the profound irony shared by these events: the corruption of Constitutional authority-the very law upon which the stated principles of a higher purpose must depend.