The detailsare more complex.
The House
represents the people.
The Senate represents the states, and also, naturally,
the wealthy.
The President represents the nation.
The Court represents the
Constitution.
The States represent themselves, but also the people.
The
Constitution represents itself; the people just have to read and apply it.
It
also represents the people--it is written by them to the government, outlining
limits of what the government may and may not do.
The electors in the Electoral
College, which elects the President, also represent the people. This is the way
it stood originally.
In simple
terms, the following were represented once: the wealthy and the nation.
On the
complex side, those which were naturally less powerful than the wealthy and
national government were represented twice: the States, and also the
Constitution.
The least naturally powerful, the regular people, were
represented in our Constitutional model four times; this is complex in design,
but what could be more simple than a government by, for and of the people?
On the side
of complexity, the founders mixed the ideas of people like:
And others in this process.
On the side of simplicity, the people simply need to read the
Constitution and the great freedom classics to understand freedom.
Another
simple reality is this: When we lose our freedoms in such a system, it is
always the people, not the system, which has failed.
The people have all the
power--if they understand freedom, read history and the Constitution, and stay
actively involved in maintaining their freedoms, the complex arrangement of
Constitutional freedoms will not fail.
Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
