Jack Guerin Special to the USA TODAY Network Through our recent national traumas, we’ve learned the importance of the rule of law. No one in our society should be above the law including the Delaware General Assembly. As Thomas Jefferson warned, “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.” Our lawmakers have used their lawmaking power to exempt themselves from the section of the Delaware Code known as the “State Employees’, Officers’ and Officials’ Code of Conduct” and from oversight of the Public Integrity Commission. In 2015 the Center for Public Integrity gave Delaware an F, ranking the First State 48th in systems to deter corruption in state government. The report characterized ethics enforcement in Delaware as “anemic.”