We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
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