When Do You Have To Obey The Law?

"'Let us leave it at this," said Atticus dryly.  "You, Miss Scout Finch, are of the common folk.  You must obey the law.'" (Lee 40)

When Scout Finch questions the reasoning behind attending school, she goes to her father, Atticus Finch, for answers, as she has always done.  The Ewells have lived generations based upon a first-day-of-school-attendance-only streak that had no intention of ending with the latest generation: Burris Ewell.  Scout's resistance to school is understandable but her father's belief that some are above the law is, perhaps, teetering on the controversial side.
In my opinion, no one is above the law or below it in a perfect society.  Nowadays the law is less of a set of rules and more of a social standard.  Little does it treat all fairly, which is why the law bringing equality is impossible.  It creates inequality for never can a world such as ours uphold to the standards of carrying it out thoroughly.  What causes it to have such a strong denotation of inequality is the fact that it effects every one's political, economic, and social status in varying blows.  For example, a man who accumulates a $30,000 annual income will suffer more so than one who accumulates $200,000, if both were to receive a speeding ticket of equal value. This will result in the man with a lower income to believe the government unjust to the lower societies and the wealthier man to believe he can afford to repeatedly break the law.
So it may seem as though the only way for all to obey the law is to give a punishment with equal value to all humans.  This, in theory, is death.  Now you must realize that if the law's punishment is death, all would obey it, but it would induce a tyrannical and military-based society with a high tolerance of violence.  That is hardly a utopia, yet the law is equal. so perhaps equal law should not be our goal, but allowing factors outside of morality and humanity to not affect the judicial syste