Are You Under the Law?
Are You Under the Law? Government: We have thousands of laws in the United States of America. Federal laws... State laws... But, what about The RULE of Law ? "The most important demand of the Rule of Law is that people in positions of authority should exercise their power within a constraining framework of well-established public norms rather than in an arbitrary, ad hoc , or purely discretionary manner on the basis of their own preferences or ideology. It insists that the government should operate within a framework of law in everything it does, and that it should be accountable through law when there is a suggestion of unauthorized action by those in power." Government is not the law. The government is not supposed to behave as tyrants or oppress the rights of citizens or violate the Constitution . The government is supposed to be constrained by the established laws and held accountable by the people who are also under those same laws. The p...