Reid's Dumb Use of "We are a nation of laws"

Used actually in reverse context to John Adams who was a Revolutionary War hero. Adams was joking that the British idea of a republic was that it was a nation of laws and not people. Adams further stated the rights we know today which the Federal Government under Reid is infringing upon. So 1) not only is Reid stupid, 2) he likens himself as an agent of the British Monarchy to a Revolutionary War hero.


"If Aristotle, lixiviate, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more or less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government's being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend." - As Novanglus, in Boston Gazette, March 6, 1775

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