Kennedy's disquisition on the rule of law is worth repeating and not just because Justice Anthony Kennedy sits on the Supreme Court and is often the swing vote.
It seems Kennedy is passionate about the rule of law and goes around giving lectures on it. He made it the center piece of an address to the American Bas Association at their convention in Hawaii in 2006. The address was covered by C-SPAN, but apparently not written out, so there wasn't a full transcript when I transcribed it for Hannah Blog.
Now I've decided to excerpt just the paragraphs outlining the three basic principles and start delivering them to public officials. It's not just in other parts of the globe that public officials fail to understand that, primarily, the law applies to them. So, here it is, below the curlicue.
