The Founders seemed anxious that modern man

recognize the subversive characteristics of oppressive Ruler's

Law which they identified primarily with a tyrannical

monarchy. Here are its basic characteristics:

1. Authority under Ruler's Law is nearly always

established by force, violence, and conquest.

2. Therefore, all sovereign power is considered to be in

the conqueror or his descendants.

3. The people are not equal, but are divided into classes

and are all looked upon as "subjects" of the king.

4. The entire country is considered to be the property of

the ruler. He speaks of it as his "realm."

5. The thrust of governmental power is from the top

down, not from the people upward.

6. The people have no unalienable rights. The "king

giveth and the king taketh away."

7. Government is by the whims of men, not by the fixed

rule of law which the people need in order to govern

their affairs with confidence.

8. The ruler issues edicts which are called "the law." He

then interprets the law and enforces it, thus

maintaining tyrannical control over the people.

9. Under Ruler's Law, problems are always solved by

issuing more edicts or laws, setting up more bureaus,

harassing the people with more regulators, and

charging the people for these "services" by continually

adding to their burden of taxes.

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10. Freedom is never looked upon as a viable solution to

anything.

11. The long history of Ruler's Law is one of blood and

terror, both anciently and in modern times. Under it

the people are stratified into an aristocracy of the

ruler's retinue while the lot of the common people is

one of perpetual poverty, excessive taxation, stringent

regulations, and a continuous existence of misery.