1. I am grateful to Renee Jeffery and Chris Brown for comments and discussion on this chapter.
2. Newsweek, Front Cover Quote, April 19, 1999; George W. Bush, State of the Union address, Washington, DC, January 28, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128–19.html (accessed April 2, 2007).
3. Barry Barnes, Understanding Agency: Social Theory and Responsible Action (London; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000).
4. Immanuel Kant, cited in Barnes, 9. See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp-Smith (London: Macmillan, 1964), 477.
5. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Other Essays, ed. John Gray (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 71.