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4. Obama's accelerates US's shameful plunge into a government of men, not laws

It was John Adams who coined the phrase that a republic is a "government of laws, not men".

If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more nor less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate.

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/john-adams/novanglus-text-february-6-1775.php

Oddly, we can wonder how he came to the conclusion that England was a republic.

Be that as it may, sadly the US has been descending more and more into the opposite and Obama has accelerated that trend beyond all imagination.

In recent history we saw this with Ford's pardon of Nixon. Reagan got away with Iran Contra. The GOP decided to impeach Clinton for perjury but revealed themselves to be partisan hypocrites when they gave Bush and his henchmen a get out of jail free card. But it seems the biggest violation of this principle is Obama who refused to prosecute any of the war crimes in the Bush Junta, AND has let all the predatory sociopathic thieves on Wall Street off the hook for collapsing the US and nearly the world economy... and he's let them keep their loot.

It's really shameful.