[32], The influence of Britain, France and the United States contributed to spreading the principle of the rule of law to other countries around the world. The influence of one school of thought over the other has varied throughout the centuries. Thus Dicey's rule of law was recast into a purely procedural form. Scholars continue to debate whether the U.S. Constitution adopted a particular interpretation of the "rule of law", and if so, which one. [citation needed] In November 2013, Thailand faced still further threats to the rule of law when the executive branch rejected a supreme court decision over how to select senators. For example, Brian Tamanaha asserts: "The rule of law is a centuries-old ideal, but the notion that law is a means to an end became entrenched only in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A common language between lawyers of common law and civil law countries as well as between legal communities of developed and developing countries is critically important for research of links between the rule of law and real economy. [82] It is the only intergovernmental organization with an exclusive mandate to promote the rule of law and has experience working in more than 170 countries around the world.[83]. The rule of law is a concept which is usually used to separate the civilized, law-abiding world from barbarism and criminality. ", In the United Kingdom the rule of law is a long-standing principle of the way the country is governed, dating from Magna Carta in 1215 and the Bill of Rights 1689. [12] Plato nevertheless hoped that the best men would be good at respecting established laws, explaining that "Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state. The judicial system is independent, impartial, open and transparent and provides a fair and prompt trial. 4280", A Companion to the United States Constitution and its Amendments, "An Originalist Defense of Substantive Due Process: Magna Carta, Higher-Law Constitutionalism, and the Fifth Amendment", Judicial Review and the Law of the Constitution, "Japan: 'The Rule of Law Without Lawyers' Reconsidered", “Legislative Sovereignty and the Rule of Law", Resolution of the Council of the International Bar Association of October 8, 2009, on the Commentary on Rule of Law Resolution (2005), "The 25th Anniversary of Constitutional Economics: The Russian Model and Legal Reform in Russia, in The World Rule of Law Movement and Russian Legal Reform", "Culture rules: The foundations of the rule of law and other norms of governance", "Does Anti-bribery enforcement deter foreign investment?
The preamble of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms says "the governments of European countries which are like-minded and have a common heritage of political traditions, ideals, freedom and the rule of law". The most important idea of the Roerich Pact is the legal recognition that the defense of cultural objects is more important than the use or destruction of that culture for military purposes, and the protection of culture always has precedence over any military necessity.
[55], Some modern scholars contend that the rule of law has been corroded during the past century by the instrumental view of law promoted by legal realists such as Oliver Wendell Holmes and Roscoe Pound. That is, if you had your "day in commission", the rule of law did not require a further "day in court". [62] The rule of law in China has been widely discussed and debated by both legal scholars and politicians in China. Will my case be completed within a decade?[61].