The Broken Trident
The colonial coat of arms features the staff of Poseidon, a trident. The retention of the trident but with its arm broken is understood to be the symbol of separation from colonial rule. It holds prominence in the middle of our national flag, and rightly so. This does not require elaboration at all.
The contract
The concept of a government’s contract with its people has philosophical grounding, dating back centuries. The Greeks were the purists, calling meetings with the entire populace to secure agreement on policy. But it was in the 17th Century when the Europeans expounded theories which, while different, were bound together by common threads of placing limits on government’s incursion into individual rights, and the concept of consent.
