Rule of Law-—was eloquently elaborated on by Cicero. The idea that there is a Higher Power—God—is the basis of Rule of Law—so no one is above the Law.
Higher Power was evoked by Martin Luther King, Jr. and at the Nuremberg Trials. What makes Laws “Just”—they HAVE to promote Virtue—as understood by the Nicomachean Ethics—later, in Western Civilization, by Judeo-Christian Ethics. Common Law was created by Christians and it became the basis of our jurisprudence—which eventually became the most perfect legal system in the history of mankind.
John Austin and his ideology ruined American Law. It is promoted in almost all law schools. It now has completely infiltrated our legal system so we get judges who rule by irrational urges—and feelings—and say there is a right to Sodomy-—a VICE!!!! This is absurd, because Higher Law is from God—not Satan. The idea that morality can be separated from law destroys justice and now permeates our legal system.
When Rule of Law is destroyed——by unjust laws—(Laws posited without regard to the Laws of Nature and Reason and Logic) —then tyranny will always result. Cicero witnessed it in Rome and wrote about the injustice which was destroying the civil society. He died for noting the truth.
We should eject all laws that were written after 1912 and return to the philosophy of our Founders and John Marshall and reject the Marxist/Austinian philosophy of the Postmodernists that destroy the meaning and intent of our Constitution. Socialism has to be eliminated. It is fascism and slavery.
Liberals are blind to the fact that their success is builded on pre-liberal and even anti-liberal foundations. They think that “progression” entails the destruction of these foundations. The French Revolution showed what happens if one succeeds in doing this. Church, throne, nobility: the ancient provinces that were virtual countries in themselves, and in their place new foundations built on air, water, fire, but not on earth.