People conflate democracy with the rule of law. That is strange, but it is so.
In all these examples, what is lacking is the rule of law, as in the FISA courts: they can do something secretly and without accountability.
There have been monarchies and dictatorships in which the rule of law was more widespread than in the present US and possibly more countries which describe themselves as “democracies”.
In all these examples, what is lacking is the rule of law, as in the FISA courts: they can do something secretly and without accountability.
There have been monarchies and dictatorships in which the rule of law was more widespread than in the present US and possibly more countries which describe themselves as “democracies”.