Topic > The Rule of Law in America - 703

Many people ask: Why did our Founding Fathers want the United States to be governed by the rule of law, rather than by men? And how does this make us different from other countries? Many people do not know what a rule of law is, a rule of law is a First Principle that requires the law to govern everyone. The rule of law also requires that the same law governs all citizens. Founding Father Samuel Adams observed that the rule of law means that “There shall be one government of justice for the rich and the poor; for the favorite at court and the peasant at the plow. Many people believe that our founders wanted to be governed instead of men, because they could have made government weak enough to rely on the Constitution. Another question many ask is who were our founders, what did they do for us and why did they not want men to rule us and what makes the way we have been governed different from other countries? The question is about to be answered about who our founding fathers were and what they did for us, why we were not ruled by men and what makes us different ...