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Above the Law What do we do about it? Posted on 07/20/2012
8:16:16 PM PDT by neverdem The greatest distinguishing factor
between countries in which there is some freedom and those where
authoritarian governments manage personal behavior is the Rule
of Law. The idea that the very laws that the government is
charged with enforcing could restrain the government itself is
uniquely Western and was accepted with near unanimity at the
time of the creation of the American Republic. Without that
concept underlying the exercise of governmental power, there is
little hope for freedom. The Rule of Law is a three-legged stool
on which freedom sits. The first leg requires that all laws be
enacted in advance of the behavior they seek to regulate and be
crafted and promulgated in public by a legitimate authority. The
goal of all laws must be the preservation of individual freedom.
A law is not legitimate if it is written by an evil genius in
secret or if it punishe