Romulus and Remus' city isn't the only city in the world that claims seven Hills. Kampala in Uganda also claims seven hills.
Today our guide will take us to the birthplace of Latin so we might knock on the the door of two nouns. Potestas and Auctoritas. For us simple non Latin speaking citizens who have a powerful desire to picket or urinate on the Supreme Court the translation of Potestas and Auctoritas into a variant of the English Language is as follows : Potestas is the Power of the Office and Auctoritas translates as respect for the old men who can read the hoof prints of Iteso Cattle, or it can mean Moral Authority, or it can mean "Not because he has a gun or big thighs, a flat nose and a colostomy bag but because he has Truth."
The Founding Fathers, as these paternalistic, slaveholding, property developing, plantation owners are still called had a hard-on for the black and white of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was Rome before Julius Caesar decided the Senate was a hollowed out shell of doddering old men who couldn't say boo to duck, let alone a goose.
Carefully The Founding Fathers laid out the competing claims of Potestas and the intangible social product that is Auctoritas. As they dreamed of Roman columns and whether it should be an Eagle or a hard working family structure friendly Turkey, the boys puff up and discuss affairs of state whle the girls lay eggs, they were happy to define themselves as "In God we Trust" and "We the People."
The problem with self elected emperors they have no balance between Potestas and Auctoritas, having rid themselves of "We the People" and replaced it with "Me the People" they have no provenance beyond Potestas or force unless they can claim ordination by God or by The Gods.
Hence "if you can keep it." Which was said to a Woman
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