No government has a fully determinate plan for every foreseeable contingency

Evidence

For this reason there is no such thing as a “firm” plan, intention, or policy of a government to cover every contingency—even all important foreseeable contingencies. How the considerations add up, what interests are brought to bear, and how the collective decision procedure works in future crises is simply not fully determinable in advance. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 457

Categorization

• XREF: The unavoidably open-ended nature of state response maps onto the recurring theme in the reader’s framework that enforceable commitments (mafia, private judges) exist precisely because formal state commitments are indeterminate. — connects to: No constitutional grand theory can be comprehensive, certain, and complete simultaneously — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 177; No one planned the rise of cloudalist power — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 445; No reliable predictive model exists for whether major reforms will entrench — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 429

Broader Connections

• No constitutional grand theory can be comprehensive, certain, and complete simultaneously #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 177