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The term "rule of law" was popularised by British jurist A. V. Dicey, [11] who viewed the rule of law in common law systems as comprising three principles. First, that government must follow the law that it makes; second, that no one is exempt from the operation of the law and that it applies equally to all; and third, that general rights ...
Fuller contends that the purpose of law is to subject "human conduct to the governance of rules". [9] If any of the eight principles is flagrantly lacking in a system of governance, the system will not be a legal one.
Trevor Allan sees the rule of law as, primarily, a vehicle for the protection of rights against "irresponsible legislative encroachment" in the face of a government with a large authority, backed by a significant majority in the House of Commons. [8] The rule of law is contrasted with rule by men and the arbitrary power one man or government ...
1. The Legislative and the Rule of Law; 2. The Executive and the Rule of Law; 3. Criminal Process and the Rule of Law; 4. The Judiciary and Legal Profession under the Rule of Law. The committees set up during the congress were each dedicated to one of the four themes with the Working Paper providing the basis of the discussions.
In international law, the principle is known as the Lotus principle, after a collision of the S.S. Lotus in international waters. The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law ...
In The Concept of Law, H. L. A. Hart argued that law is a "system of rules"; [35] John Austin said law was "the command of a sovereign, backed by the threat of a sanction"; [36] Ronald Dworkin describes law as an "interpretive concept" to achieve justice in his text titled Law's Empire; [37] and Joseph Raz argues law is an "authority" to ...
Following from Raz's general conception of the rule of law, he argued for the existence of two groups of principles of the rule of law: First, that the law is capable of guiding the behaviour of its subjects; second, that there exists an effective legal machinery that secures actual compliance with the rule of law. [8]
Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies. General principles of parliamentary procedure include rule of the majority with respect for the minority.