Congress's main goals in authorizing the development of the guidelines were honesty, uniformity, and proportionality. Honesty has been achieved, because all sentences are now determinate. However, uniformity and proportionality are interrelated and inherently antagonistic; thus, they cannot both be unequivocally attained. In addition, the United States Sentencing Commission gave the courts unlimited power to depart from the guidelines. However, the Commission can amend the guidelines annually and needs to limit the departure provisions and thereby retain limits on judicial discretion. Case examples and footnotes (Author summary modified)