Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.