Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The constitution can be viewed as constituting a government
with three Branches i.e. a Legislative Branch that is filled with the
representatives of the people, an Executive Branch that houses a president and a Judicial Branch whose Justices are appointed. It can also be viewed as a triadic
form of government structured as a Top that houses the Executive,a bottom
that houses all the people in the Nation and a judicial branch that structures
the relation between the abstreact Top and the real bottom in a triadic structure.
The bottom is the important part of the triad because it serves as base and support for the Top. The Top has the power to govern because the bottom has elected the Top
to do so. Otherwise, the person occupying the position of the Top has
absolutely no power over you and me. He or she may be stronger, richer, own
lots of property and have lots of money, but the bottom line is that s/he is
just as human as you and I and the human condition, as such, does not confer
any kind of preferential power on one person, or race, over another. Everyone
is equal in the sense of a humanity. The differances are merely accidental
or cultural, never essential.The purpose for an abstract Top is so that a society can
establish a focal point of power for control or government. However, that Top
must comply with the structure crafted by the Founding Fathers. If we view
the Constitution purely as a language document, we can be mislead by the effects
of the Linguistic Turn. If we view it structurally as having an underlying
geometric or mathmatical, triadic structure,we can begin to see how the structure
is to function and why the Founding Fathers chose that particular way of
organizing government. The Constitution is a masterpiece of government of the
Many by the One. The underlying principles could also be applied Internationally.
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