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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