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America is going to get a rather rude awakening if President Trump tries to pull a "Dredd" and claim "I am the law!"
This matter was already settled in English law which is the foundation of US law, when Queen Mary was executed.
The dispute then was can the law apply to the personal embodiment of the law? Back then the Queen wasn't merely a supposed figurehead, but was the government itself. The Queen or the King was therefore the law, was the font from which all authority sprang.
They could be no more held accountable for their actions by the thing they created, than God could be held accountable by His own creation.
Her execution is a rather obvious testimony to the outcome of that debate.
America has apparently not yet learned this lesson, but I'm sure Trump will force them to do so.
This matter was already settled in English law which is the foundation of US law, when Queen Mary was executed.
The dispute then was can the law apply to the personal embodiment of the law? Back then the Queen wasn't merely a supposed figurehead, but was the government itself. The Queen or the King was therefore the law, was the font from which all authority sprang.
They could be no more held accountable for their actions by the thing they created, than God could be held accountable by His own creation.
Her execution is a rather obvious testimony to the outcome of that debate.
America has apparently not yet learned this lesson, but I'm sure Trump will force them to do so.