WHAT do we really know about ‘the people’?

The term itself, like an important ingredient of a mantra, has a powerful effect, but no clear meaning. Like part of a mantra, it is repeated in order to disturb, dominate or inspire. But, like a mantra, it loses its magic when placed as a syntactic unit for analysis. Under scrutiny, the term “the people” becomes problematic.

Its meaning (like words in general) actually depends on the differenc