The foundational pin holding the American rule of law together is that no man is above it.
Early on, when George Washington refused to be king, he did so in recognition of man’s worst instincts. If the colonists embraced another king, free to write the law as he went along, they soon would be right back under lawless control and plunder, a fate too many Patriots gave their lives to escape. It wasn’t “if” early America would fall back under tyranny, the lawless caprice of monarchy, but when.
