The old linguistic formulation of the Top and the Bottom or the One and the Many was not adequate for democratic government. It left out too much, for example: how is the Top chosen? How does the Bottom control the activities of the Top? Why should the Bottom have any control over the Top? Who judges the propriety of the activities of the Top and ultimately, who or what looks over the whole edifice? A two pronged approach to the many questions about government can never be adequate. Of course, that was the problem with King rule. Needless to add, those were some of the problems that brought about its demise and with that, the end of the Middle Ages. Government needs a three prong approach. The Constitution formulates such a three prong arrangement. Nevertheless, great caution must be exercised in interpreting the arrangement. Interpretive practices that are purely linguistic and based on the variability of morality, as well as codes of conduct extracted from the the mere relation of the One and the Many must be excercised with caution. What was right and proper yesterday may not be right and proper today. Language concepts are too variable and allows for too many differences in meaning.It is better to apply Number to the triadic arrangement of branches. The number 1 stands autonomously. Add the number 2 and we see the possibility of a tension between the two numbers. Why?, because both numbers are autonomous, yet as human individuals, each may bring about a tension. Hence, the need for the number 3. Three, brings with it the possibility of an element of control over the others. Three can balance the tensions between one and two. A democracy is Many people at the Bottom, the One or the Top is elected from the Bottom,the third prong is also elected or appointed from the Bottom. The Many is constituted of many individuals and hence each is autonomous and rules himself or herself, subject only to the general welfare established by the Constitution. In democratic government, the Bottom of many individuals reigns supreme. Thats the form of government established in the Constitution. There is a further complication in the arrangement of branches and that is that the Top is abstract, interpretive practices are also abstract but the Bottom is not abstract, its real. Democracy is an equation and in a democracy, the Bottom is real, it is number and it reigns supreme and is subject, only to the Constitution. Interpretive practices must acknowledge the superiority of the Bottom and the Third Branch must be objective.