The triadic form of government creates a dilemma. The Top is abstract and the
bottom is concrete. The Top is involved in abstract conversation and manipulation
while the Bottom is involved in the act of living. Of course, the Top is also living
and the Bottom is also engaged in conversation. But, the essence of the
conversation of the Top is about governing and that of the Bottom about living
day to day. So the question becomes, how do we connect the relation between the
top and the bottom in such a way so as to not exclude the Bottom from real
democracy. In other words, how do we make democracy real and not just a bunch
of empty talk? How do we connect the conversation at the Top to the real
individuals at the bottom. Aha, we begin to see a simularity to the old
philosophical problem of the gap between theory and practice, or the gap between
the map and the territory. But, government is not in a quest for Truth or reality,
its on a quest for Constitutionality. We must never forget, as a Supreme Court
Justice said, " Its a Constitution we are interpreting". The Constituion simply
constitutes us as a Nation. It's a political institution crafted in triadic form to
allow each side of the triad to participate in the act of governing millions of
people. How else do we connect the so-called abstract One with the actual Many,
heretofore referred to as Number. The power of the abstract top is granted by a
Constitutional structure: the strength of the real bottom comes naturally to each
and every individual by virtue of being human beings in a condition of
togetherness or community. " We the People...". We are Number.