Back to the days just before the Con Con Con Job done to Americans by criminal central banking frauds and slave traders and back to the Articles of Confederation which constituted the existing federal (voluntary) agreement at the time the criminals began to hatch their plan to employ their fraudulent takeover of the existing rule of law:
No one claimed to be above the law when rule of law is the voluntary agreement.
From Article 5 of the Articles of Confederation are the following words in print taken from Elliot's Debates Volume 1:
"Freedom of speech and debate in Congresss shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Congress; and the members of Congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on, Congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace."
The idea of rule of law is simpler when examples are shown in time and place. Such as:
RESPUBLICA v. CARLISLE 1 U.S. 35 1778 Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center
Someone, anyone, becomes aware of criminal acts and there is then probable cause to act in defense. A cause of action is said to be warranted in time and place. We the people must defend we the people from criminals in time and place, and someone found evidence of a criminal perpetrating injury upon people in time and place; so it is warranted that action is taken because of that cause for that action. An authority such as a sheriff (one that is not on the take) is contacted and the sheriff historically does not decide to act on his own say so, especially in capital cases where the crimes often cause people to act by killing the one found guilty of a capital crime; such as hanging by a rope, or firing squad, or other capital punishment for having perpetrated a capital crime such as treason in time of war.
Confirmation:
RESPUBLICA v. SHAFFER 1 U.S. 236 1788 Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center
"It is a matter well known, and well understood, that by the laws of our country, every question which affects a man's life, reputation, or property, must be tried by twelve of his peers; and that their unanimous verdict is, alone, competent to determine the fact in issue."
AND
"For, the bills, or presentments, found by a grand Jury, amount to nothing more than an official accusation, in order to put the party accused upon his trial: 'till the bill is returned, there is, therefore, no charge from which he can be required to exculpate himself; and we know that many persons, against whom bills were returned, have been afterwards acquitted by a verdict of their country. Here then, is the just line of discrimination: It is the duty of the Grand Jury to enquire into the nature and probable grounds of the charge; but it is the exclusive province of the Petty Jury, to hear and determine, with the assistance, and under the direction of the court, upon points of law, whether the Defendant is, or is not guilty, on the whole evidence, for, as well as against, him."
Up until the criminals took over the rule of law applied to everyone including federal congressmen; which included federal congressmen who presided (president) over the federal congress, such as the 6th president named Richard Henry Lee.
So the witness, or witnesses, file a written complaint, or merely alert the sheriff who then acts in a lawful manner based upon the cause of action; which is the alleged crime perpetrated by the alleged criminal upon the alleged victim or alleged victims. Often in history, going back before Magna Charta, there were sheriffs, and judges, on the take, as part of the gang of criminals perpetrating crimes under the color of law, so common practice in capital crimes were the random selection of a grand jury of 25 people who would then advise the sheriff concerning the right or wrong of defending the people in the specific case of the specific accusation made by the specific witnesses or the specific list of many witnesses, concerning the specific alleged crime in time and place in this one case.
Confirmation:
Bill of Rights Transcript Text
Amendment V
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
There you have lined up in a row the Article V quote from the Articles of Confederation whereby those in power acknowledge that among those in power there may be criminals capable of capital crimes and there is a method by which those criminals can be defended against because rule of law is the idea that works in defense against criminals who infiltrate and take-over defensive government, and then lined up in a row is an example of rule of law going step by step from accusation, to grand jury presentment, and then onward to trial by jury, and the date is 1778, BEFORE the Articles of Confederation or the fraudulent Constitution of 1787 were ratified.
People have learned since ancient Greece that the majority rule idea, and the dictatorship idea, and the tyranny idea, are all based upon criminal ideas where the criminals take over defensive government, so people have learned to randomly select from the whole body of people as a more effective method of deciding matters of defensive government especially when the criminals elect (by majority rule) their favorite liars to lord over everyone, subject everyone to criminal orders, and everyone is supposed to obey criminal orders without question. The competitive process that is opposite so called "majority rule" is called sortition, trial by jury, common law, the law of the land, legem terrae, due process, and rule of law.
Confirmation:
The Athenian
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In the Athenian state, as in any other, we can distinguish legislative, judicial, and executive functions. The Athenian legislative branch consisted of two bodies, a Council of 500 and an Assembly of 6000. At first glance, this system resembles the American bicameral legislature, with a small, select upper house and a larger, more popular lower house. But this appearance is deceptive.
To begin with, neither the Council nor the Assembly consisted of elected representatives. The members of the Council were selected not by election but by
sortition — i.e., by lot. In other words, the 500 Councillors were selected
randomly from the (male) citizen population. (And no Councillor could serve more than two terms.)
The practice of selecting government officials randomly (and the Athenians developed some fairly sophisticated mechanical gadgets to ensure that the selection really was random, and to make cheating extremely difficult) is one of the most distinctive features of the Athenian constitution. We think of electoral politics as the hallmark of democracy; but elections were almost unknown at Athens, because they were considered paradigmatically
anti-democratic. Proposals to replace sortition with election were always condemned as moves in the direction of oligarchy.
Why? Well, as the Athenians saw it, under an electoral system no one can obtain political office unless he is already famous: this gives prominent politicians an unfair advantage over the average person. Elections, they thought, favor those wealthy enough to bribe the voters, powerful enough to intimidate the voters, flashy enough to impress the voters, or clever enough to deceive the voters. The most influential political leaders were usually Horsemen anyway, thanks to their social prominence and the political following they could obtain by dispensing largesse among the masses. (One politician, Kimon, won the loyalty of the poor by leaving his fields and orchards unfenced, inviting anyone who was hungry to take whatever he needed.) If seats on the Council had been filled by popular vote, the Horsemen would have disproportionately dominated it — just as, today, Congress is dominated by those who can afford expensive campaigns, either through their own resources or through wealthy cronies. Or, to take a similar example, in the United States women have had the vote for over half a century, and yet, despite being a majority of the population, they represent only a tiny minority of elected officials. Obviously, the persistence of male dominance in the economic and social sphere has translated into women mostly voting for male candidates. The Athenians guessed, probably rightly, that the analogous prestige of the upper classes would lead to commoners mostly voting for aristocrats.
That is why the Athenians saw elections as an oligarchical rather than a democratic phenomenon. Above all, the Athenians feared the prospect of government officials forming a privileged class with separate interests of their own. Through reliance on sortition, random selection by lot, the Council could be guaranteed to represent a fair cross-section of the Athenian people — a kind of proportional representation, as it were. Random selection ensured that those selected would be representatives of the people as a whole, whereas selection by vote made those selected into mere representatives of the majority.
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So those who formed the original federation in America confessed their liability in subjecting themselves to rule of law, in the Articles of Confederation, a process exemplified in the Respublica versus Carlisle trial by jury case, according to the common laws of free people; where rule of law dates back at least to Athens Greece.
No one at that time was officially claiming to be above the law; not until the Dirty Compromise in Philadelphia in 1787. Everyone was subjected to rule of law, including federal congressmen: in their own official words written in the federal constitution.
Confirmed again in the Bill of Rights which amended some of the wrongs in the fraudulent Constitution of 1787.
All that above is simple in natural principles. All that above is universally known accurate accounting of the facts in every case where controversy may inspire conflict, and instead of failing to defend innocent people, people hold each other to an accurate accounting, find the criminals before they perpetrate further injury and defense is acted out effectively beCAUSE the cause of action in defense is caused by the criminal, and defense against further injury - even if the criminal is a federal congressman - (rule of law) is acted out in fact, in time, and in place.