Well the way I run my server is, that I listen to what the client say/ask if I don't like it I'll either kill,jail,kick,or ban, which ever sees to be the most fit, but yes clients shouldn't have to bow down to admins and s admin but they should to the host due to the fact that the host can close the server when ever they want.
Anyways even if you've been on my server you should knew I have many admins and s admins, but they been ith me from the start of my hosting, so they know how I run things, but yes like you said clients should have a little more power then they do.