Return to the Rule of Men (and Women)
Monday, June 15th, 2009In the 18th century, we the people of the fledgling United States were fodder for the voracious tax appetite of Parliament. We were also subject to the capricious will of a sovereign monarch who was not constrained either by precedent or the Rule of Law. Then we had a revolution, followed by almost 290 years of a democratically-elected representative republic anchored by a seemingly bullet-proof Constitution.