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This is important to understand.
The 'cop' is not telling you what to do, the government is telling you what to do using the cop as the agent.
Saying the 'cop' is telling you what to do implies that it is his (possibly capricious and arbitrary) will being enforced.
Understanding that it is the government telling you what to do reinforces the fundamental point that making and enforcing the rule of law is the government's sacred responsibility and reason d'etre. (sp?)
By extension, the power to do this does not come from the job, but is invested in the officer by the appropriate government entity.
This is all important to us because the Governments in Canada and the US (as well as most western govts.) are representative of the will of the people. (Which is why in a court, the cases are always stated as "The People of blah blah vs. Joe Blow" and not "The Govt. of Blah blah...")
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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