可伸可缩的橡皮筋民主的精粹之一 ,就是“法律面前人人平等”。美国律师多于牛毛 ,往往给人们留下一个法制完备、以法治国的形象。如果有人告诉我们 ,美国在许多方面是一个有法不循的国度时 ,我们也许要怀疑此人是否搞错了国名。然而令人失望沮丧的是 ,威廉姆·格兰德在其《对 One of the quintessential democrativistic rubber bands is “All people are equal before the law.” More than lawless American lawyers often give people a legality of the rule of law and rule of law. If someone tells us that the United States is in many ways a lawless country, we may wonder whether the person made the wrong country name. Disappointingly frustrating, however, is William Grand in his "right