To ensure no despot — whether that despot be a single dictator, an elite political pressure-group, or the befuddled democratic majority of the moment — may usurp the powers of government, and turn its machinery upon its citizens, each and every aspect of government action is codified, and carried out, according to objectively defined laws.
The supreme legal document of a proper society is the constitution — a citizen’s protection not only against private criminals, but public ones also.
