We are nation of laws, not of men. We are a democratic nation because of Athenian Greeks and recently I went to Athens to re-discover our democratic heritage which seems to be in great peril today. I found it to my surprise hidden in plain site in the Museum of the Ancient Greek Agora in Athens engraved in this stele which depicts the personified Demos (people of Athens) being crowned by Democracy (the first red arrow). The second red arrow points to a law against tyranny which records the following: “If anyone rise up against the Demos for tyranny or join in establishing the tyranny or overthrow the Demos of the Athenians or the democracy in Athens whoever kills him who does any of these things shall be blameless.” Basically, any tyrant can be killed and anyone who kills the tyrant was acquitted.