Harrison is anything but ordinary, he is depicted as "exactly seven feet tall...Harrison's appearance was Halloween and Hardware" (Vonnegut 197 ). Harrison being so young, did not accept the handicaps like his father, so he was put in prison until he escaped (Moore 27). Handicaps cause his appearance to be drastically affected, but he is mentally strong enough to ignore the radios in his ears. Harrison's strengths allow him to exploit his society's lack of inequality, but he is arrogant in the way he carries himself on camera, shouting “I am the Emperor! Have you heard? I am the Emperor! Everyone must do what I say at once” (Vonnegut 198). Harrison's actions bring him down as he becomes power-hungry and a would-be dictator. “The Declaration of Independence considers the equal ability of human beings to make judgments about their own situation and that of their communities as the basis for popular government and identifies the shared right of the people to alter or abolish existing political institutions as the only true guarantee for their freedom. And Abraham Lincoln famously summarized the founding as the birth of a nation “conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal” (Allen). Harrison's decision to break out of prison to hopefully shed light on the corrupt government was necessary for his God-given right. Power and equality should be balanced, similar to the American government today, with checks and balances. Checks and balances allow the government to work effectively but are there to “hold the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch more accountable for regulations and their outcomes” (Dudley 1027). Harrison made the mistake of claiming to be the leader of a group of people who had just heard how he had escaped from prison and been