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-|HasArticleText===The Role of Law==
+|HasArticleText=This page is currently a set of notes to guide the writing of an article on the meaning of the 'rule of law'.  This is a subject on which many articles can be written.
 There has been, and is, since the time of Aristotle, a disagreement about the basis of the rule of law which is "government by laws and not by men"
 Most of the notes below are quotes from The Constitution of Liberty

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-There has been, and is, since the time of Aristotle, a disagreement about the basis of the rule or law which is "government by laws and not by men"
+There has been, and is, since the time of Aristotle, a disagreement about the basis of the rule of law which is "government by laws and not by men"
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 ::Cicero shows that during the classical period of Roman law it was fully understood that there is no conflict between law and freedom and that freedom is dependent upon certain attributes of the law, its generality and certainty, and the restrictions it places on the discretion of authority.
 : This classical period was also a period of complete economic freedom, to which Rome largely owed its prosperity and power.  From the 2nd century A.D., however, state socialism advanced rapidly.  . . .
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-:Liberty in the sense of individual liberty was understood in 4th century BC Athens.
+===4th century Athens===
-::Isonomia / Isonomy
+Liberty in the sense of individual liberty was understood in 4th century BC Athens.
-:::"equal laws for the noble and the base"
+:Isonomia / Isonomy
-:::contrasted with the arbitrary rule of tyrants.
+::"equal laws for the noble and the base"
-:::different from democracy.  "in a democracy the laws should be masters."
+::contrasted with the arbitrary rule of tyrants.
-::interesting quotes from Aristotle
+::different from democracy.  "in a democracy the laws should be masters."
-:::from ''Politics''
+:interesting quotes from Aristotle
-::::condemns the kind of government in which "the people govern and not the law"
+::from ''Politics''
-::::"for when government is not in the laws, then there is no free state, for the law ought to be supreme over all things."
+:::condemns the kind of government in which "the people govern and not the law"
-::::A government that "centers all power in the votes of the people cannot, properly speaking, be a democracy: for their decrees cannot be general in their extent."
+:::"for when government is not in the laws, then there is no free state, for the law ought to be supreme over all things."
-:::from ''Rhetoric''
+:::A government that "centers all power in the votes of the people cannot, properly speaking, be a democracy: for their decrees cannot be general in their extent."
-::::It is of great moment that well drawn laws should themselves define all the points they possibly can, and leave as few as possible to the decision of the judges, [for] the decision of the lawgiver is not particular but prospective and general, whereas members of the assembly and the jury find it their duty to decide on definite cases brought before them."
+::from ''Rhetoric''
-:::The modern phrase "government by laws and not by men" derives directly from the statements of Aristotle
+:::It is of great moment that well drawn laws should themselves define all the points they possibly can, and leave as few as possible to the decision of the judges, [for] the decision of the lawgiver is not particular but prospective and general, whereas members of the assembly and the jury find it their duty to decide on definite cases brought before them."
-:::Thomas Hobbes believed that it was "Just another error of Aristotle's politics that in a well-ordered commonwealth not men should govern bu the law."  James Harrington retorted that "the art whereby a civil society is instituted and preserved upon the foundations of common rights and interes . . [is], to follow Aristotle and Livy, the empire of laws, not of men."
+::The modern phrase "government by laws and not by men" derives directly from the statements of Aristotle
 ::Thomas Hobbes believed that it was "Just another error of Aristotle's politics that in a well-ordered commonwealth not men should govern bu the law."  James Harrington retorted that "the art whereby a civil society is instituted and preserved upon the foundations of common rights and interes . . [is], to follow Aristotle and Livy, the empire of laws, not of men."
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