Reply #71: This may seem like splitting hairs, but it's an important distinction, IMO:

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Ratifying the Constitution in 1789 represented our decision to be a society governed by laws, to live under the rule of law. The same was true of the Articles of Confederation. Each document was law. However, neither document is "the rule of law." We're the only society to be governed by our Constitution. Many societies have been, and are, governed by the rule of law.