Constructing the Agency of Change
“Public opinion,” now-a-days, “is the opinion of the bald-headed man at the back of the omnibus.” It is not the opinion of the aristrocratical classes . . . or of the most educated or refined classes . . . . it is simply the opinion of the ordinary mass of educated . . . mankind.
—Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, 1877
Recognizing that “private industry [had] begun to develop commercial launch vehicles capable of carrying human beings into space,” in December 2004, Congress approved H.R. 5832, the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act with the explicit goal of “safely opening space to . . . private commercial enterprises,” by “[stimulating] the commercial space transportation industry.” Nevertheless, ...
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