and sock rah tease café was meant to be a space for friends and foes alike to gather together and explore thoughtfully and reasonably timely and existential problems, an exploration that ideally makes people feel bound together more. um, that was sock rah tease café, and this is constitution café, kind of a follow on in a very imaginative way. let me just ask you a question first. what word does the people s republic of china ban in its blogs and chat rooms but uses many, many times in its own constitution? [inaudible conversations] freedom? democracy. how can that be? they re a democratic republic, they claim, and yet they won t allow that word to be used in its blogs and chat rooms. how can that be? off with their heads. however, let me ask you another question. what word is not in the u.s. constitution that you think might be there? i mean, it s beacon of the free world, after all. what word is lacking that you might think? yes? democracy. democracy. it s in that