One reason the moral foundation has failed to take its proper place in creating democracy is that other values often masquerade as moral values. The United States Constitution makes a sharp distinction between political values and religious values in order to avoid confusion between those two distinct realms of value. The same is true of economic, aesthetic, military, and a variety of other domains. The important difference between morality and these other categories is that it and it alone takes priority in a genuine democracy. All of these forms of value are relative, but morality alone is universal, applying to all persons.