"We would even go so far as to say that it would appear that some members of senior management actively undermined the systems of control that had been put in place".
The problem is that the website glitches, though minor in themselves, undermine the system of carrots and sticks at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
"The strongest policy objection to vouchers is that it would undermine the system of public education," said Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional scholar at Harvard University.
These two pieces of Judge Alito's philosophy point to a willingness to undermine the system of accountability that a democracy depends on.
The shock value of salaciousness has been in decline ever since the Pill (among many other factors) began to undermine the system of stringent sexual controls that gave it its power.
"If judges are not aware of where this information, where this evidence originated from, it undermines the system of laws and the system of justice upon which we all rely," he said.
When Americans threaten to use firearms to enforce their political views, the violent threats carried by that language undermines the system of public debate on which our system depends.
They argued that, even if an effective system could be produced, it would undermine the system of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that had prevented all-out war between the western democracies and the communist bloc.
The new doctrines on faith and the priesthood of all believers rejected Roman Catholic teaching on salvation and the priesthood and undermined the traditional system of authority.
"Such a faith undermined the entire system of absolute rule," he said.
