The Rule of Law
The doctrine of the rule of law dictates that government must be conducted according to law.
Dicey identified three essential elements of the British Constitution which were indicative of the rule of law:
- Absence of arbitrary power;
- Equality before the law;
- The Constitution is a result of the ordinary law of the land.
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“The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him,—not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.”
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“Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
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