Whether electorates will be quite so quick to shackle themselves to Germanic fiscal rules is another matter.
They constitute the use of governmental power to intrude on the privacy and shackle the political freedom of American citizens.
But an unregulated environment attracts all those who do not want to play by the rules that shackle traditional money managers.
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Governments have no resources, so for those same governments to prop up the losers, they must by definition shackle the winners.
In any of these cases your progeny might need to sell the company, and your name on it may shackle them in negotiations.
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In America, meanwhile, the plans taking shape face resistance, partly from the bankers they will shackle but even more from regulators and lawmakers.
If student debt is not to shackle existing graduates and put off future ones, the rules could be changed so that it is dischargeable in bankruptcy.
But background checks and assault rifle bans will not free us from our most debilitating shackle, and that is our numbness, if not addiction, to violence, particularly in film.
Consider it the true replacement for a basic feature phone, ticking all the smartphone checkboxes without having to either spend a lot up front or else shackle yourself to one carrier.
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ZH's father said Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe had refused to apologise to his son and refused to agree that officers should not shackle children with disabilities in similar circumstances.
Losses on the Nasdaq this year are closely related to this destruction because trustbusters have pledged to use the Microsoft case as a precedent to impede the growth and shackle the talent of others in the information economy.
It is just that his people recognise that real change will require much more wide-ranging constitutional reforms: presidential term limits, a devolution of power from the executive to the judiciary and parliament, fair parliamentary elections, and the end of laws that shackle freedoms and sanction government thuggery.
Despite the moral, humanitarian and strategic arguments for intervention, Syria is a trap that threatens to suck external powers in and shackle them with responsibility for war-making, peacekeeping and a reconstruction effort that could eventually involve thousands of boots on the ground and billions of dollars in assistance.
Here is a great paradox: the big decision to press the button on creating the euro was a French attempt to shackle the economic and political power of a unifying Germany, but it has had the perverse consequence of reinforcing German power within the eurozone and the European Union.
If public-sector workers cannot afford to live in the south-east of England, then the government should be changing pay scales that currently discriminate in favour of public sector workers in cheap bits of the country and against those in expensive bits, rather than reintroducing something that once looked like a boon to the poor and turned out to be a shackle.
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