Keywords
political liberties
democracy
rule of law
checkerboard statutes
principle of rationality
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Abstract
What is the relation between democracy and the rule of law? Why did they develop more or less simultaneously, and why do we tend to conjoin them when describing good government? After all, theoretically, these two are: a non-democratic regime may operate with a robust rule of law (think of eighteenth-century England) while a government elected by popular vote mayflout the rule of law principles (think of Russia or Turkey or Pakistan). And yet, to repeat, there seems to be some mutual reinforcement – perhaps even some interdependence – between these two systems of political organisation. This article will survey the most common explanation for the confluence of democracy and the rule of law, and will then propose a new one – namely, that democracy and the rule of law complement each other in the rationalisation of government power.
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