I will forever be grateful for the legacy of idealistic law and justice bequeathed to me and all-American citizens in the fervent admonition of the honorable lawyer, Constitutional legislator, Vice-President, and US President John Adams when he stated that "we (the American republic) are a nation of laws and not of men. " I wish I could have extended my appreciation to him personally, but the man, Adams, has been dead since 1824, having lived 126 years before I was born. Yet, despite my own sincere gratefulness to him and the other dedicated Framers of the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights, there are currently those federal officers of the 21st Century, elected, appointed, and hired as bureaucrats who, having come from the 20th Century, personally despise what Adams said and would rather the republic become and act as a 'nation of whimsical and flippant men (and women) and … Read More

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