Possibly the most misunderstood, misapplied, misrepresented word in the English language is the simple three letter word spelled, l-a-w. What or who is the law? How is it to be defined? Who is charged with its application as relates to the citizens of this country? Who is to decide what the law is and what the law is not? Is the law only the tool of the righteous or can it be used for the purposes of abject tyranny?
Any comprehensive look at the LAW would be horribly incomplete without the definition offered by Thomas Jefferson: “The law is often nothing but the tyrant’s will and always so when it violates the Rights of the individual.”
“A nation of laws; law and order; law enforcement:” are words and phrases we hear a multitude of times each day. But, what is the intended purpose of a “law?” If we relate this back to the Declaration of Independence, the organic document of freedom and liberty, we see laws should have only one purpose, and that would be to protect the rights of the people. Sadly and tragically, laws have now become instruments of tyranny and oppression. Governments have created laws to oppress the rights of the people they were allegedly tasked to protect.
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