What did Professor Hasnas mean when he claimed that the idea of the rule of law is a myth? According to Wikipedia “The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders. It is sometimes stated simply as ‘no one is above the law’.” What does Professor Hasnas mean by no one is above the law? According to taylorfrancis.com, “This chapter begins with what is intended as an entertaining reprise of the main jurisprudential arguments designed to show that there is no such thing as a government of laws and not people and that the belief that there is constitutes a myth that serves to maintain the public’s support for society’s power structure.”

Professor Casey claims that the idea of political representation is an empty one. How does he defend this argument? Political representation is when politicians represent the citizens and act in the best interest of the citizens. How did he defend this idea? He said that “representation is insufficient to cover the brutal fact that despite our sophisticated modern states, the elegant rhetoric, and persuasive propaganda, some rule, and others are ruled.”