Because his career made it possible so he could and few people could override his actions creating a legal precedence to be continued for every next generation forward.
Every rule of law humanity created in history never took evolving as self evident time living since conception. Every soul saving humanity tomorrow surrendered their sole set of chromosomes for the faith now isn't eternity relative to current events never same results twice categorized by 24/7 logistics of human behavior each rotation checked off a calendar of events existed in series parallel time displaced as conceptualized by contextual social minds.