Thursday, July 11, 2013

A government without People cannot exist.

A Top without a Bottom cannot exist. Imagine a Top without anyone to govern. It can't be done. Now try to imagine a Bottom without a Top. That can be done, but the end result of that scenario would be Anarchy. Now try to imagine a Top and a Bottom without a Side in the triad of government. That move reduces the triad to a mere dichotomy, and the dichotomy removes us to the ancient dilemma of the One and the Many. That dilemma turns the issue into what authority does the Top have to govern the Bottom? Of course, at this point we cannot ignore the old Divine Right of Kings concept. Historically, that concept required an elaboration of the concept into the idea that the king had Two Bodies. Of course, one was of 'Divine' origin and the other was more 'mundane'. The other way to get authority for the Top was just to take it by force. Ultimately, people needed to form a government of people, by people and for people. The only way to have a 'people government' is for the people to initiate a 'condition of togetherness' for the purpose of establishing, in writing, a form of government. Does it have to be in writing? Absolutely. It has to be in writing and the People have to approve it. That way we try to prevent verbal misunderstandings and we don't ram government down anyone's throat. The form has to be triadic because one branch governs, another interprets the Constitution, and another continues to legislate laws and policy that implements democracy. Of course, each part of the triad has to do its job. Nevertheless, its easy to see the necessity of the Judiciary to have 'interpretive practices' that are objective. Here enters the contemporary dilemma, the inclination of the human condition to divide itself into Parties. One Party always has to be 'more right' than the other. Once political power is conferred upon the human condition, it seems to immediately transforms into some sort of 'self-importance' which further translates into greed for position,power and money. Democracy is dependent on the democratic values contained in the Constitution.

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