Mike,

My post not to argue with yours, but rather to express my concern with the concept. While I appreciate the nuance you lay out of "Rule of" vs "Rule by"; but if one needs a lawyer to explain even the name of a legal concept, it is a flawed conceptual name.

No one needs to explain "justice" to anyone. We all know when we feel we have been treated with justice or injustice intuitively. I stand by the position that this is what I want State to pursue rather than "Rule of Law;" particularly when we are on record as being against Sharia law. The implication is that we want to replace your law with our law, and there is little justice in that implication.