The Strength of the Rule of Law in the United States

As Americans, we all bear a special responsibility to both uphold and promote the rule of law. This sacred responsibility springs from our unique place in history, and it’s our destiny as a nation. The founding documents of our founding fathers “The Declaration of Independence” and the Constitution. Established for the first time in history a government not made up of man men but of laws. Our founding fathers breathed life into an idea which caused men to rejoice and despots to fall. It is the force and majesty of this idea that created the most powerful nation ever created. Today our strength derives from the heroic historic documents and from the principle of the law. For more than two centuries, the rule of law has served for generations.

Before America was born, men and women were ruled by kings who claimed divine right to rule and changed the laws to satisfy their own personal whims. It was considered a tragedy by our founding fathers who had dreamt of a nation on the Rule of Laws. Humanity lived under iron rule of one form of king or another for thousands of years until that fateful day in Philadelphia, when some very wise and courageous leaders gathered on the Fourth of July in 1776 to institute a new form of government where people like us would be able to rule ourselves under the law. This is known as the Rule of Law. Justice according to written laws instead of the desire of private interests. The dream of America is a land of Liberty and Justice for all. According to the Rule of Law, we rule ourselves.

The Rule of Law lives in the hearts people in the nation everywhere. We all know deep inside that we are entitled to be treated equally by government and that no man or group of men should be given special favors or powe...

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This country is different from all of the others around the world. Our exception emerged long before the United States became a nation. The conditions through which American Colonies were formed and their belief in the Divine Providence, contributed to the exceptional nature of the United States of America.

This nation was not only exceptional at its founding, but became increasingly exceptional over the passage of time. The exception that this country enjoys will no doubt continue into the future from generation to generation. As long as the concept of exception is defended by the people that make up the grand nation known as The United States of America.

The exceptional nature of the United States has been important not only to the growth of this country both geographically and economically, but to people everywhere in the world.