Listening to Hans-Hoppes talk about how kings and queens were above the law and thus considered a violation of equality before the law.

But if you read the Pentateuch, much of that possibility is made less obvious–though not entirely eliminated. For example, cursing a ruler and cursing one’s own parents had the same penalty. Everyone was a king or queen in his own family.

Of course, kings were known for conscripting labor, which the populace found wrong, as Rehoboam discovered. And David was never brought to a court of law for adultery and murder. So I’m not saying that the problem is eliminated in the Biblical kingdom. I’m just pointing out that there is more of an analogy in many cases between the rights ascribed to a king and the rights ascribed to anyone else.