"If you believe in the Rule of Law" You do know how loaded that statement is, right? It can not work in isolation. For it to work, you must also believe in the

"If you believe in the Rule of Law" You do know how loaded that statement is, right? It can not work in isolation. For it to work, you must also believe in the court's ability to fairly apply this rule of law, and in the people who create the laws in the first place. No rational person can believe in the rule of law in isolation. For example, dictators create laws to protect their own power, worse, to defeat any opposition. Would you ask someone who lives under the rule of a dictator is they believe in the rule of law?