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(2) The power of the state serves all citizens and can be only applied in cases, under limitations and through uses specified by a law. (3) Every citizen can do anything that is not forbidden by the law, and no one can be forced to do anything that is not required by a law. The same principles are reiterated in the Czech Bill of Rights, Article 2.
The idea of a law of ultimate justice over and above the momentary law of the state—a higher law—was first introduced into post-Roman Europe by the Catholic canon law jurists. [3] "Higher law" can be interpreted in this context as the divine or natural law or basic legal values, established in the international law—the choice depending on ...
We have said that no one is above the law. Justice must turn on the law and the facts, on what the defendant at bar did or didn’t do, not on who he is. Not today.
In an unsparing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court allowed a president to become a “king above the law” in its ruling that limited the scope of criminal charges against ...
Violating the perceived intention of the law has been found to affect people's judgments of culpability above and beyond violations of the letter of the law such that (1) a person can violate the letter of the law (but not the spirit) and not incur culpability, (2) a person can violate the spirit of the law and incur culpability, even without ...
He said the International Criminal Court Act of 2001 guaranteed immunity for the head of a government of a state that was not party to the Rome Statute under which the ICC was established.
The idea of the rule of law can be regarded as a modern iteration of the ideas of ancient Greek philosophers, who argued that the best form of government was rule by the best men. [25] Plato advocated a benevolent monarchy ruled by an idealized philosopher king, who was above the law. [25]
No one is above the law in this country, not even the president. So the 14th Amendment needs to be followed if the Constitution is to be respected by its own people.