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PILLARS OF THE SUPPORT

"By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep food supplied to the markets, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler though a variety of organizations and institutions. If the people stop providing these skills, the ruler cannot rule."

Once we understand the nature of power, we must understand how they function in the society, which mean bringing them to gather into institutions.

Those institutions holding up the building of power are called Pillars of the support.

As well, if you withdraw the sources of power, if you withdraw the institutional support/the government will collapse.

Pillars of the support are functioning and operating through different institutions and organizations.

Example of those Institutions, holding castle call government are the following:

1. Police (Law Enforcement)
   
   
2. Bureaucracy (Civil Servants)
   
   
3. Educational System (Teachers and students)
   
   
4. Organized Religion (Church and Tsonga)