The Rule of Law (opens in new tab)

The rule of law is one ideal, or value, within liberal political morality: others include democracy, human rights, social justice, and economic freedom. The plurality of these values seems to indicate that there are multiple ways in which social and political systems can be evaluated, and these do not necessarily fit tidily together. Some legal philosophers (e.g., Raz 1979 [1977]) insist, as a matter of analytic clarity, that the rule of law in particular must be distinguished from democracy,...