In his original draft of the Massachusetts Constitution,
John Adams
, delving into a classic ideal of the Republic of Sparta, provided us with the best definition of
"Republic"
: "A government of laws, not of men."
Faced with despotic and arbitrary power, the law, a meditated crystallization of public reason, which allows us to know what to expect, assures us of genuine freedom.
Cicero
said it better than anyone
, so admired by John Adams: "Let us be slaves of the law, so that we can be free."
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