Supremacy of Law Quotes
This has been one of the fundamental debates in America since its founding. Which is more important, the preservation of civil rights and personal liberty or the supremacy of the law and the stability of our institutions. In war, the tension is always existent. In law enforcement, there is also a common conflict. Prohibition, like the later War on Drugs, was not able to be enforced without the invasion of personal rights. Americans decided that Prohibition benefits were not worth it/ The debate is ongoing with respect to the War on Drugs.
The Continental Congress told each colony should establish its own republican government quickly so that the people did not have to depend on England for anything, and that the English Monarchy be opposed and supplanted anywhere where they wanted to exercise authority.
