The Top of government is an essential part of a democracy.

The Top of government is essential to any form of government. Of course, that also applies to a democracy. Otherwise, the Bottom would be without any form of government. However, the relation between the Top of an Autocracy, and the Top of a Democracy, functions differently in relation to the Bottom. Obviously, the Top of an Autocracy 'says' how the Bottom is to live, behave, act, or whatnot. In such cases, the Bottom is not as "free" as should be the case in a democracy. However, in a Constitutional Democracy, the functions or duties of the Top are set forth in the Constitution and the "interpretive practices" of the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, the Court is not always in accord with any one way of resolving an issue. That discord arises from 'forms of reasoning' supported by different Party ideologies. How, any Party ideology, can be so different from each other, is beyond comprehension. In a democratic Nation, the Parties should both be democratic. Hence, regardless the 'route' of the reasoning process, the end result may be different, but it should always be democratic. In other words, the end result should be 'favorable' to the Bottom of the Democracy. The Bottom, " We the People...", the governed, the human beings at the Bottom, the real individual, should be the beneficiary of Constitutional adjudication. Of course, there'll be intermediary issues to be resolved, but the essential Constitutional issues should benefit the real individual at the Bottom or should improve the implementation of the democratic structure issuing from the Top. The Top can only do what the Constitution and the People allows them to do. Their power is given by the Peoples; not even the Constitution gives power, it only gives the form of government. " We the People..." place these representatives, 'up' there. A Democracy is a "Peoples" government.