“Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state is not far off. But if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men will enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state.”
Plato, the most influential philosopher of all time, observed this around 350BC.
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