TCS: Tech Central Station – Can a People Have Too Much Respect for the Law?
Our “deference to the Law, and to every one who wears the semblance of lawful authority, is so complete… as to occasion a traveler some annoyance and more surprise,” Dixon wrote. “Every dog in office is obeyed with such unquestioning meekness, that every dog in office is tempted to become a cur.”
Read the whole thing; it’s quite interesting.
