Monday, April 15, 2013

Power is a 'social' given; it arises from the 'togetherness' conditions of existence. It applies only to large social entities and not to particular individuals. Hence, it applies to the Nation. That makes power applicable to the political because the political applies to the Nation or the society as a whole. There is no political power on the individual 'level'. No political leader can apply the force of power acquired from the Constitution to any one human organism. Humans are Free and Equal and hence are their own 'governors', which ,of course, places a responsibility on the individual to stay within the parameters of Just law. But, the Nation or the social or sub-categories of the social, as political entities, are subject to the power of law and political policy. Hence, a democracy "of people","by people" and "for people" is governed as a Nation, which includes 'a social', or a sub-category of the social. Government is for the Many and the application of policy and law to the Many at the Bottom must be objectively consistent with the Form of the Constitution. This objectivity should be Numerical and should apply to individuals as Number. With Number, one can compute inclusion and exclusion properly. General laws and policy should be subject to reduction to Number which can render inclusion and exclusion more exact, more practical, and less confusing. If quantification is a tool available to science and renders science accurate, why not use that to better achieve democracy. There is no other way to 'balance' a democracy for the 'General Good' at the Top as well as the Freedom and Equality of the individual at the Bottom. Maybe this approach can really help us to try to make politics into a science. We already use the term, "political science", but if anything is remote from the appellation "science", it's politics. The reason for that seems to be that polititians are more concerned with their own welfare instead of the General Welfare propounded by their disipline. We cannot exist as a Nation when selfish welfare creeps into our political decisions.

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