Leaders are easier to handle then rulers. A ruler is the measure of his people. A leader is open to suggestions. A ruler is the standard by which you are judged. A leader is judged by his standards. Democracy demands leaders and rejects rulers. Democracy will not elect Christ as King because it presupposes a majority of people constitutes a king. As such, they support no single king, even Christ... especially not Christ.
“And you notice that I am guilty of a slight archaism in calling them ‘rulers’. ‘Leaders’ is the modern word. I have suggested elsewhere that this is a deeply significant change of vocabulary. Our demand upon them has changed no less than theirs on us. For of a ruler one asks justice, incorruption, diligence, perhaps clemency; of a leader, dash, initiative, and (I suppose) what people call ‘magnetism’ or ‘personality’.” — C. S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays
There are many books about being a good leader, but one good book for righteous rulers. There are any number of creative ways to lead a corporation, but only one tried and true way to rule a people. You cannot get justice from someone who holds their office by a majority vote. Sometimes the minority is in the right and the arbiter of justice must not favor the poor or the rich, he must uphold justice. The poor can be wrong. And even more shocking, the rich can be right. Not always, but sometimes and you cannot rule well if you presuppose that can never happen. You cannot expect purity from people who depend on other people's favor to remain in power. Only a ruler can provide justice, but even then, only by him submitting to the rules of the Ruler of rulers.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Justice is rare and so many run wild.
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