Above The Law

Above The Law?

Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes,

the powerful dictate what they desire-- they all conspire together. (Micah 7:3)

Are the Rich and Powerful above the Law?

Then they must defeat: Three Great Generals

General Ten Commandments

And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tablets of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. (Exodus 24:12-13)

The Magna Carta begins, “John, by the grace of God King of England.” It then says “Know that before God, for the health of our soul and those of our ancestors and heirs, to the honor of God, the exaltation of the holy church, and the better ordering of our kingdom.”

Magna Carta is Latin for Great Charter. This extremely important document has been called:

“The greatest constitutional document of all time, the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the

arbitrary authority of the despot.”

The king was no longer the law. He was under the law.

General Declaration Of Independence

Hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Believe me, Dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this, I think I speak the sentiments of America.

Thomas Jefferson, November 29, 1775