christian society in its supranatural perfection.” In such a view, as Dooyeweerd describes it, communities such as family, university, and corporation are lower parts of these higher organic unities: families are organically subordinate to the state, and the state to the church. The principle of subsidiarity, then, serves only as a kind of pragmatic limitation on the real authority of church and state, dictating that whenever possible the lower entities should be allowed to function without interference