Because the citizens would help make the city-states laws/ideas. City-states are independent from the actual country so they mkae there own laws.
The U.S government hid many things from Citizens such as wars and top secret Files
The "rule of law" is a phrase used to describe that everyone must follow the law and that you're not above it.
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Lincoln wanted to encourage the Emancipation Proclamationl, to encourage the African Americans to join the Union armies.
