We require, that is, common factors sufficient to permit us to perceive the collectivity as capable--through some kind of procedure--of acting as “a person with all the attributes of personality, conscience and will.”145 It is idle, however, to think that there can be an act of constitution-making that banishes the centrifugal tendency of distinct historical-cultural sympathies and that one can always and everywhere construct a purely demotic polity, one based solely on loyalty to shared civic values.