The Five Pillars

A refresh is necessary to appreciate well the five pillars. To wit:

i. The Constellan is a singular and popular diplomat-captain, who safeguards foremost the People of Silofais, by leading the national foreign policy.

ii. The Grand Forum is a bicameral legislature, whose Houses and Committees manage the Government popularly by public newspapers, journals, and speeches.

iii. The Cabinet is a several and collegiate board, who take care of Law and Equity, by promulgating good policies under time-wise scarce decisions, with the advice and sometimes the consent of the Constellan, the Grand Forum, or the Judiciary.

iv. The Testifium is the quasi-public association of steadfast persons, whosoever comprehend Law and Equity for a lifestyle; do not abuse, but offer their counsel on such lifestyle; and hold all people accountable, not only themselves, for the practicable effects of the Judiciary, the Courts, the Chambers, and the People’s Justice.

Each foregoing description takes a branch-of-government for a manner, method, way, mode, or fashion. After a reader integrates them well, the term ‘police-officer’ becomes a difficult oversimplification.

What do the police do, but substantiate governmental policies? As ‘the job is the name,’ so it is a game of semantics. What do the police officiate as officers? Furthermore, who serves a given officer but for the police-agents, the police-commissioners, the police-detectives, etc., etc., &c.? No matter how esoteric or myopic such questions may seem, nevertheless the answers are important, as far as the results determine what can the police do in substantive (due) process without infringing the civil, martial, other Rights of a given Person—more, without offending the Immunities or Privileges of the Citizens of the Resident Locale.

Sometimes a locale calls itself a state, other times a city or county, more times a village or borough or parish, but in any case of the style, the ‘police-officer’ is an abused term. It references too casually the militarization of human arms and their royal entourages, e.g., a president or a prince. It offends amendments II and III of the U.S. Constitution, to say the least.

What matters between a U.S. Marshal and an F.B.I. Special Agent? Allegedly the former is a judicial police-officer, while the latter is an executive police-officer. What matters between judicial and executive, then? The answers are already given; their epitomes are the above descriptions some paragraphs ago.

The riddle’s answer sits inside a cognitive conciliation, that the branches-of-government are the fashions, whereas the rules and the regulations substantiate the five quasi-permanent pillars. (Each is a bulwark-of-purpose.)

The U.S. Marshal is quite similar to the F.B.I. Special Agent: they wear a similar uniform [Tracht], obey the same rules-of-engagement, and adhere themselves to the same regulations-to-enforce. Whether one calls them a police-officer, a law-enforcement-officer, or some other style, still the fact remains, that they are primarily uniformed. Their fashions belong to the judicial department and the executive department, respectively, whereas their courtesies and customs belong to a Uniformed Service.

This is one of the five pillars. The others are Foreign, Auditory, Domestic, and Municipal. Each is nominally a service, but as a point of Fact and Law, each is really the collection of the relevant and related rules and regulations, which are distinct of themselves at least.

One position could be judicial, uniformed, and foreign. Perhaps that is the safety-guard at a U.S. Court on a territorial island far off in the Pacific.

Another position could be executive, legislative, and auditory. Perhaps that is an agent of the C.I.A., or is a congressperson’s staff who are visiting a private newspaper to give a ‘leak.’

Another position could be constellary, foreign, and auditory. Perhaps it is a constellary guardswoman on a deployment in Paris or Tripoli, or is the Marines Sergeant who stands post at the foreign embassy of ours in Buenos Aires.

As the Testifium is the constitutional counterpart to the Supreme Court, so each pillar is an equitable counterpart to the civil officers, whose offices and bureaus depend ultimately on a service to effect their Prerogatives, Treaties, and Harmonies.

Sometimes that service is uniformed, foreign, auditory, domestic, or municipal. Everytime that service is sworn, loyal, effective, nonpartisan, political, and protected someway of cronyism or nepotism.

The five Services percolate through every echelon. A Delegate of the College of Delegates is not less than legislative or auditory, and would be thus a subject to the published rules or regulations that affect his/her status in the legislative branch and the auditory service. (This example pertains metaphorically across the entire State of Silofais.)

Whether a person has one rank or another, or has a higher or lower rank, depends on the merits that she/he has earned up to a point in time. Above all, everyone salutes the merit, not the office.

May the five pillars serve a particular purpose, so that the Nation shall withstand those occasional tumults and tribulations between the People, the Government, and their common Hermeneutics.

Amen.