ABSTRACT
Commitment to the rule of law is one of the core values of a liberal legal system. 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. Counsel for both the plaintiff professor and defendant Future Republicans of America agree that the rule of law governing this case holds that a promise to pay more for services one is already contractually bound to perform is not enforceable, but if an existing contract is rescinded by both parties and a new one is negotiated, the promise is enforceable. The chapter by suggesting that the preservation of a truly free society requires liberating the law from state control to allow for the development of a market for law.
