Monday, December 16, 2013

The Bottom of a democracy is 'Number'

Although the Bottom of a democracy is to be considered as Number, the Bottom never loses its 'humanity'. This means that each and every individual at the Bottom, regardless his/her race ,color, creed or economic conditions, never loses his/her 'humanity'. The individual is sacred in a democracy and must be included or excluded in all democratic laws and policies emanating from the Top of government. Categorizing the Bottom as Number merely provides a tool for the enumeration of 'inclusions' or 'exclusions' of democratic policy or law. In this manner, the effectiveness of a law or policy can be established by merely counting the number of individuals to whom the policy applies. If any one individual is left out of the computation of a democratic policy, for whatever reasons, that individual is being discriminated against by government. Democracy applies to each and every human individual within the social. This automatically excludes corporations because they are not natural 'persons'. Even though the Judicial Branch treats them as 'persons' within the Constitutional framework of the social, there 'personhood' does not extend to the natural rights of the human condition protected by the Constitution. The corporate structure is a creature of the economy, not of the social and hence the protection it enjoys is merely economic, not natural. The consolidation of economic activity is protected because it gives strength to the economy by protecting the artificial nature of the corporation and by increasing and consolidating its productivity. But, the corporation was never meant to be anything more than an economic institution. It is not a 'political person' and was never intended to be considered as a 'real' human being, so why expand its Constitutional rights. The human individual is sacred and deserves Constitutional protection, but the corporation is not sacred; its a "legal fiction" and deserves to be treated as a fiction necessary to consolidate economic activity; but not to participate in politics; that's surrealist.

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