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A cardinal feature which has distinguished the American democratic experiment from most other nations in the modern era is that we have, with several major exceptions such as the Civil War, been a society under the rule of law. The best known expression of this principle is that the rule of law means we are "governed by laws, not men." America, together with the relatively small number of other countries that embraced the rule of law in the recent past such as the U. K. and its Commonwealth
A cardinal feature which has distinguished the American democratic experiment from most other nations in the modern era is that we have, with several major exceptions such as the Civil War, been a society under the rule of law. The best known expression of this principle is that the rule of law means we are "governed by laws, not men." America, together with the relatively small number of other countries that embraced the rule of law in the recent past such as the U. K. and its Commonwealth coun…