There is nothing, it turns out, that Bartolo Colon can't do. The 42-year-old Colon launched the first home run of his 19-year career on Saturday, taking Padres pitcher James Shields deep for a two-run shot in the second inning of a at Petco Park. It was Colon's first hit of the season, and just the third extra-base hit of his professional career.
The rule of law is the principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by decisions of individual government officials.
The common law way of thinking explains how law can adapt in an orderly way to social transformation, while preserving a presumption in favor of tradition and thus, given our traditions, usually in favor of liberty: Precedent ordinarily rules unless a strong case can be made that something genuinely new is presented, and even then the attempt is made, by analogy, to assimilate the new to the settled.