"Freedom under law is like the air we breathe," wrote President Dwight Eisenhower as he prepared his speech celebrating the first U.S. Law Day this week. "People take it for granted and are unaware of it—until they are deprived of it. The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened where there is no rule of law1. The dread knock on the door in the middle of the night . . ."
May Day, U.S.S.R., in the land of that knock, was to be another sort...
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