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Antwerp merchant Pierre de Moucheron and his family, by an unknown artist, 1563. © Rijksmuseum.

Preamble

Due Process

By Lewis H. Lapham

Lamenting the death of the rule of law in a country where it might have always been missing.

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U.S. Supreme Court building, 2011. Photograph by Joe Ravi. © Joe Ravi.

Essay

Separation of Power

By William Hogeland

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

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Essay

Immune from the Law?

By Joan Cocks

The curious case of the sovereign citizens movement.

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Essay

The Daimons’ Wisdom

By Erica Benner

How do you preserve the rule of law when tyranny is on the rise? Lessons from the Florentine republic.

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Essay

Land of the Lawless

By Ralph Nader

How power in America has turned the rule of law into a mere myth.

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Essay

The World’s Greatest Outlaw

By Richard Cohen

The life of Samuel Johnson, would-be attorney-at-law.

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