re: #280 Desert Dog
We are fortunate here in the west that our societies developed with ideas such as this one. That our leaders are not above the law. Of course, it took a few thousand sometime bloody years to get to were we are now. The biblical examples, the Greek City States, the Roman Republic, even the leges barbarorum all have contributed.
As have, for example, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Ahadith. No, not all of them. But even the Inquisition was progress compared to what came before.