In all forms of government, the people are supreme.

Government is about governing; and one has to ask; 'what' or 'who' is governing; and 'what' or 'who' is governed? Of course, there are many different forms of government, but in all cases, the essential 'tension' in all governments is the tension that arises from the relationship of the One to the Many or, stated differently, the relationship of the Top of government to the Bottom of government. Hence, the Top, or the governments, are all conceived as 'abstractions' simply because they are all situated at the very Top of the multitude in a position of 'power'. That being the case, all governments can also be labeled as 'fictions', in the same manner as Rousseau's concept of the State, and in the same manner, as corporations. The 'State' and the corporation are both accepted as necessary 'fictional configurations'. Hence, government must also be a necessary 'fictional configuration'. Since, all government institutions are situated at the Top of the multitudes as necessary fictions that always deal with 'power' and its exercise, and the Bottom is always about the 'Many' or the Multitudes, it must be understood that the Top is abstract and the Bottom is real. Stated differently; the Top is an abstract necessity but the Bottom is composed of real individuals. Human beings are real, not abstractions and they can never be conceived as less important then the 'fictional configurations' that become necessary to the governing process. Each individual is free and equal as is the Other, and all government is a fictional configuration. In democratic forms of government, this arrangement is recognized and respected. In other forms of government, the government is more important than the People. But in all forms of government, the People are real and hence supreme. Governing is basically a relation between a Top and a Bottom and the big issue within any Nation is always the relation between the Top and the Bottom of government. In a democracy, the Bottom is supreme. That should be the case in all forms of government.