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Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship, by James Bovard, 9 Oct 2006
Related Topic: George W. Bush
"President Bush has once again decreed that his personal pen is the highest law of the land. ... His action vivifies that the rule of law now means little more than the enforcement of the secret thoughts of the commander in chief. ... The American Bar Association recently declared that Bush's signing statements are 'contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional separation of powers.'" |
Clinton in Africa, by Thomas Sowell, 15 Apr 1998
"We should never forget that, even today, the rule of law is the exception -- not the rule -- among the nations of the world. Our great blessings as Americans come not from our personal merits but from our having the good fortune to live under a rare form of government, with a constitution dedicated to preventing concentrations and abuses of power." |
Decimating the Constitution with Military Tribunals, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 27 Sep 2006
"Contrary to popular opinion, it does not mean that people should obey the law. What it means is that people should have to answer only to a well-defined, previously enacted criminal law for their conduct, not to the discretion or arbitrary judgments of government officials." |
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| Free Martha Stewart! — Part II, by Harry Browne, 5 Mar 2004 |
Hard Cases Make Bad Law, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 23 Mar 2005
"... if one of the litigants had filed his suit in federal court ... the federal judge would have dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction ... This is an example of the 'rule of law' — where a judge follows the law rather than deciding on his own to let the case proceed out of sympathy for one of the parties." |
Is Ken Lay Really a Criminal?, by William Anderson, Mises.org Daily Article, 19 Jun 2006
"The way that US attorneys work is that they pry guilty pleas from lower-level employees ... That the charges generally are nebulous or do not reflect mens rea, which used to be the bedrock of US criminal law, is irrelevant to federal prosecutors, who simply are playing to win by using all 'tools' Congress and the federal courts have given them." |
Rule of Law Damaged by Schiavo Bill, by Sheldon Richman, 23 Mar 2005
"Congress has no constitutional authority to exercise arbitrary power any time an emergency catches its attention, especially where there are no federal or constitutional issues at stake. That it is legally restrained from doing whatever it wants is part of what we mean by the rule of law." |
The Constitution and the Rule of Law, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Aug 1992
Related Topic: Constitution of the United States |
Why No Indictment for Bernard Kerik?, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 15 Dec 2004
"... the 'rule of law' ... means ... that a free society entails everyone's having to answer only to a law that has been duly enacted and is clearly on the books, as compared with a society based on the 'rule of men,' where people are expected to respond to the arbitrary and capricious dictates of government officials." |
Political Power and the Rule of Law, by Ron Paul, Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk, 5 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Politics, The State
"Our constitutional system, by contrast, was designed to restrain political power and place limits on the size and scope of government. It is this system, the rule of law, which we should celebrate--not political victories. ... Political power is inherently dangerous in a free society: it threatens the rule of law, and thus threatens our fundamental freedoms." |
| Cartoons |
| Abu Ghraib Defendants, by Ben Sargent, 27 Aug 2004 |
| Rule of Law, by Ben Sargent, The Austin American-Statesman, 19 Oct 2006 |
| She's helpin' th' terrorists! ..., by Ben Sargent, The Austin American-Statesman, 30 Sep 2006 |
Decider, by Mark Fiore, 10 May 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush |
| Books |
The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, by Randy E. Barnett, 1998
Online excerpts provided by Prof. Barnett at Boston University web site |
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