Democracy for the bottom is a political statement. There's no question that the
essence of democracy is at the bottom i.e. with the people. The Preamble of the
Constitution rightfully begins with "We the People..." and then proceeds to set
out the purpose of government or what is to be accomplished by a democratic
government. Following the Preamble, is the body of the Constitution which sets
out a government of three branches. Subsequent Articles address Amendments
and debts. Then it sets the evolution of the actual Amendments.
   A Constituion completely in writing must be interpreted. Therein lies the
linguistic problem. In the early days, there was a problem of semantics. But, at
that time there was no problem with the function of language as such. Today,
we have the Linguistic Turn; i.e. a problem with the referential aspect of
language or with the correspondence of language to the territory.
  Viewing democracy from a more philosophical or mathmatical perspective
may avoid some of the problematics of language. The structure of government
has always been the ruler or governor at the Top and the ruled or governed at
the Bottom. Authority or abstract power always flows in a top/down relation.
The Top is One or several, and the Bottom is Many or the People. But, the
Constitution includes a third branch, which makes it triadic, and assures that the
two branches are functioning in accordance with the Constitutional structure, i.e.
in accordance with the relation of the Top to the Bottom and the Botom to the
Top. What has not been sufficiently pondered is that the Top must function
abstractly and the Bottom, from necessity, functions concretely. Individuals
are real, not abstractions. As real individuals, the Bottom is concrete. The
Bottom could function abstractly, but that would only be a return to the
problematics of language and the Linguistic Turn. No, the Bottom must remain
Number. As Number every one must be included in any democratic
formulation. The Bottom is real, it is number, each one must be counted. The
equation- 'the Bottom is democratic'-is true only if everyone is included in the
count. 
    The Top has abstract power, the Bottom does not have abstract power, but
it has strength in numbers. The Top cannot have a revolution, but the Bottom
can.