What is the Rule of Law?

Civics 101

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Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What is the rule of law? It's certainly not the same as the rule of men.

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0:00.0	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Nicape DiChi.
0:13.0	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:15.0	And we are here today for a very special edition of Civics 101 Live.
0:19.0	For those out there who are listening, who are not in the room,
0:21.8	we are at the Stephen G. Breyer Community Learning Center
0:25.1	at the Mokely Courthouse in Mary Old Boston.
0:28.8	Hold on, before we start, I've always wanted to say this.
0:31.8	This episode of Civics 101 was recorded in front of a live studio audience.
0:35.6	Nick, was that everything that you have always dreamed of? It absolutely was.
0:38.3	Did you ever watch Lost, the show Lost?
0:40.3	I did.
0:41.3	I believe that I stopped watching around the fourth season.
0:45.3	Did many of you watch Lost when it came out?
0:47.3	Thank you, heavens.
0:48.3	Of course, right, that's the correct answer to that.
0:50.3	And you know in the show where the guy goes previously on Lost?
0:53.3	Previously on Lost. Yes. Okay. The guy who did that voice was a chairman at ABC who quit, who
1:01.4	forcibly kind of resigned just before the show came out. And then they like brought him in secretly
1:07.5	to say previously unlost. So he's like, he's like kind of doing a secret perpetually in the lost canon.
1:13.3	Was that like a last jabs thing?
1:15.3	Yeah.
1:15.5	I'm like, all right.
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