A Formal Theory of the Rule of Law
A Formal Theory of the Rule of Law
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法治的形式理论
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1993
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R. Summers
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R. Summers
Since 1215 in England, and in ensuing centuries in most of the countries that England has influenced, we have witnessed more or less continuous progress toward government under the rule of law. England’s own earliest major advance was King John’s acquiescence in the Magna Carta in June of 1215. 1 The final revision of this great charter occurred in 1225, and it was confirmed in 1297 by Edward I and placed on the first or ’great’ roll of English statutes. One of its original clauses (ch. 39) captures a major feature of the relatively formal theory of the rule of law that I conceptualize and argue for here:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.2