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Protagoras on democracy and the rule of law
Filosofický časopis, 2021 The sophist Protagoras is famous for being the first consistent relativist who argued that there is no objective truth and every perception is valid for those who experience it. He extended this relativism to morality and politics and maintained that the
Giorgini, Giovanni
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The rule of law in Athenian democracy and in Plato’s laws
Filosofický časopis, 2021 This paper examines how Plato both draws on Athenian ideas about the rule of law but also refines and reforms in accord with his philosophical views. Like the Athenians, Plato also believes in the importance of the accountability of officials, but takes ...
Harris, Edward M.
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Argumentos, 2016 En los textos que componen “Usos del pasado. Qué hacemos hoy con los setenta”, Claudia Hilb atraviesa temáticas que sirven de disparador para retomar y reflexionar sobre ciertos debates jurídicos que parecen estar clausurados en la discusión pública ...
Belén Gulli
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A Democracy-Friendly Theory of the Rule of Law. [PDF]
Hague J Rule LawAbstractThe dominant way of thinking about the rule of law is that it is a constraint, a limit, on government. On this view the limitation applies with full force to all forms of government, democratic and undemocratic, and to both the executive and the legislative branches. The privileged institution for enforcing those limits is the courts. Democracy
Webber J.
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Between democracy and dictatorship: Hybrid regime and rule of law [PDF]
Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2022 Past and on-going political affairs linked to the pandemic, particularly in Serbia (which fits the concept of a hybrid regime), created discussions among some lawyers on whether the President's declaration of a state of emergency was constitutional or ...
Mišić Marica
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The Janus-Faced Attitude of Global International Law to Democracy
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2023 This paper considers the relationships between global international law and democracy as well as between democracy and human rights. Its primary assumption is that some obstacles to democracy are rooted in international law itself.
Barbara Mikołajczyk
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Building the rule of law state as a guarantor of democracy in modern Vietnam
Управление, 2022 Building the rule of law state (referred to as the rule of law) is an objective trend for democratic countries in the modern world, including Vietnam. Thoughts about the rule of law in Vietnam, related to the people’s desire to have an independent state ...
Tu Thi Thoa
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Rule of Law versus soft Rule of Law
Revista de Derecho Político, 2020 This article refers to a theoretical revision of the term Rule of Law and the concept of soft rule of law. It focuses on human rights as an essential element of the Rule of Law, the interaction between democracy and the challenges faced by the Rule of ...
Rubén Méndez Reátegui +1 more
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Law, Democracy, and the Rule of Law [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract This chapter faces the question of law's ‘mode of existence’, by asking what law does—and how. To accomplish this, the chapter explains the concept of the ‘sources of law’ and the nature of legal reasoning, notably the attribution of legal effect when specified legal conditions apply.
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The Rule of Law and the Extraordinary Situation
Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review, 2021 The various legal theorists dealing with the operation and effect of law have mostly examined situations that can be described as occurring in the usual, regular, normal state of social life.
András Karácsony, Szabolcs Nagypál
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