JAY: How significantly different would a Clinton White House, Obama White House, or an Edwards White House--how much can they do? How much do they want to do differently? VIDAL: It's too broken. The first thing you have to do is get back habeas corpus. You've got to get back the Magna Carta, you've got to get back our legal system, you've got to get back the pillars of the Constitution, and they're gone. Republics don't restore themselves.