Bill Bartlett wrote: The rule of law is the best that can be hoped for in a class society
I would have said it's something that can't be hoped for at all, as a point of fact. Whether it would even be a Good Thing seems questionable as well.
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Indeed. In fact it is impossible even in fantasy to imagine what "the rule of law" would constitute. Law equals WORDS, and it is in principle and in practice impossible for the same sentence to mean (exactly) the same either for any two persons or for the same person on two different occasions. A text is dumb until it is given meaning by an interpreter. It cannot speak for itself.
Carrol