However, the jus divinum was the regulator of the Leaphigh social compact, until the nobility managed to get the better of the jus, when the divinum was left to shift for itself.

It was at this epocha the present constitution found its birth.

Any one may have observed that one stick placed on end will fall, as a matter of course, unless rooted in the earth.

Two sticks fare no better, even with their tops united; but three sticks form a standard.
This simple and beautiful idea gave rise to the Leaphigh polity.

Three moral props were erected in the midst of the community, at the foot of one of which was placed the king, to prevent it from slipping; for all the danger, under such a system, came from that of the base slipping; at the foot of the second, the nobles; and at the foot of the third, the people.