sovereign, they
gradually form a multipolar or bipolar structure where-in the eventual hegemons lobby.
The complication, therefore, stems from the fact that any hierarchy fosters legal,
pragmatic, social inequality among otherwise -legally- equal entities.
Well, it is obviously not the case that people are gifted evenly at birth, or that they
share perfect analogy and symmetry between them, despite Hobbes' high figure of even
selfishness. Society, kindly wishes to align people at a starting point in order to grant
them the most humble yet violated right which, as first stated by St. Anselm, is that "all
men are equal." However, complete equality among people being impossible, the wish
now becomes the amelioration or reduction of inequality.
This justice is one of the exercises of a government of men over men. "A government
of men over men" though, as pronounced by Madison, states a relationship and not an
equality or an equivalence. Men o v e r men, no matter how well or badly, literally
become: m e n o v e r men. Therefore, a government, i.e., an arbitrary or legitimate
hegemon of society, as the entity being at the top of the hierarchical chain is
proportionally greater than any, or all of its subjects, and exercises the associated,
unique power which far exceeds, and is not explicitly accommodated in, its
constitutional powers. An institutional power, distant and unfamiliar to any other
subject, that becomes even more distinct, because although one may alter, change,
modify, question, or shape it, one cannot, however, annihilate it. It is worth illustrating
this more: one cannot break it, interrupt it, pause it, revoke it, reverse it, or stop it. Such
form of power is a pure form of c o n t r o l -a power that is here to stay.
Therefore, the issue is not ...