When President Eisenhower proclaimed the first Law Day in 1958, he sought "to remind us all that we as Americans live, every day of our lives, under a rule of law. Freedom under law is like the air we breathe. People take it for granted and are unaware of it—until they are deprived of it." Statements of the President and Chief Justice on Law Day—U.S.A., 44 A.B.A. J. 544 (1958). Indeed, the rule of law feels to many of our fellow citizens like an abstract concept, on which even some judges have only a "superficial grasp." See Patricia Timmons-Goodson, The Bell Tolls for the Rule of Law, Judges' J., Winter 2008, at 32, 33. But to those of us who have lived in countries where the rule of law has not always been followed, the concept is cherished as integral to a healthy democracy.