Regular readers know that I am fond of distinguishing between "Democracy"-a political arrangement in which the demos, the people, rule-and "Our Democracy™," a counterfeit or masquerade of democracy in which not the people but an elite nomenklatura rule.
There are, he noted, two forms of law: rule of law and rule by law.
The first, he wrote, the rule of law, "Is based upon neutral rules that are in place and applicable to all without regard to political belief or status, economic class, religion, etc. That is or was the aim of classical liberal politics-to erect a limited system of laws applied to all as a foundation for liberty." That's precisely what the Framers intended to bequeath us.
The alternative, rule by law, describes the antithesis.
The rule by law comes into play when the state has evolved into a large-scale enterprise and has formulated laws in scale and number that are capture citizens in a web of rules.
The actual behavior of the Committee that rules us-the government itself and the sprawling, onion-like knot of agencies that carry out the government's will-show that Tocqueville underestimated the persistence and harshness of the tyrannical in his anatomy of this modern perversion of democracy.
These are some of the many signs and portents that signal the guttering of the rule of law and its replacement: rule by law.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/04/democracy-in-decline-the-subversion-of-rule-of-law/
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