Haytham's thesis — and its refutation in the world around him. The Templars believe order can be constructed from the top down, that the right people with the right power can produce a stable civilization. AC3's America is the laboratory test: the Revolution is producing order through force, the British were maintaining order through force, and neither produces the stability their architects promised. Order that cannot be forced leaves the Creed's alternative — freedom, the chaotic precondition for the order that actually holds.