In political language the term guideline is used frequently. Political groups, institutions or state bodies have projects that go in one direction or another. The guideline would be the focus and direction of a set of ideas.
A global proposal has a diversity of aspects and for there to be coherence between them it is necessary that they share a course. This shared sense of a project is what happens in the guideline.
It is a cultured word and inappropriate from ordinary language. It applies to the political arena in general. In addition, lineament (the word alignment is also used) suggests that between each of the points of a proposal there is a confluence.
If a ruler affirms that the new proposals have a liberal guideline, it means that each set of measures has the same spirit or intention, they are going the same way.
It could happen that there was a deviation in the initial intentions and to redirect a correct direction there would be a realignment, that is, a new attempt to resume the original project that for some reason has been abandoned.
The term guideline suggests to the listener that the issuer knows what he wants and is committed to a defined project and that he is on the right track, he follows a line.
In politics, rulers communicate their purposes to citizens. Through the different means, the president conveys different action plans to the citizen; of a social, fiscal, citizen security, etc. And each one has its own characteristics. In order to maintain a correct direction between the different aspects and not to fall into contradictions or inconsistencies, there must be a definite trend. If this happens, there is a guideline in the general project approach.
Lineamiento is a Spanish word and, as is known, Spanish has Latin as its original language. This language is, together with Greek, the root of the language shared by the Hispanic world. Lineamiento comes from the word lineamentum, a term used to draw a body. It is appreciated that the original meaning evolved to adopt the current meaning. We are, therefore, before a good example of the interest that etymology arouses, the study of the origin of words. Each term has a primal meaning. Over time, new uses and meanings appear. In parallel, there are similar words (synonyms) that serve to enrich our vocabulary. Words follow a course, a story, a guideline.
