A political constitution is the backbone of society; when it breaks, society is no more and will reconstitute as another polity or fragment into more polities. The political constitution consists of inter-structure, intra-structure, and infrastructure. These three aspects are totally integrated and interrelated. Society takes place on the earth hence the political constitution is a concrete geographical event interwoven with surrounding polities and the physical reality of its environment. These relationships are referred to as polity’s inter-structure. Intra-structure of political constitution is the fundamental agreement between individuals and groups in society, a basic covenant acknowledging the order of things. In political philosophy this has been formulated as a social contract: why and under which auspices the monopolization of violations maintained by the political form is deemed legitimate. The concrete distribution of power is the infrastructure of the political constitution. Distribution of power can be captured in a basic juridical text expressing ‘basic law’, expressing how this shall ideally take place, this part is sometimes referred to as ‘The Constitution’. This may lead to the mistake of taking a small part of the political constitution for the whole.
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