POLS 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Certainty, Client Confidentiality, A. V. Dicey
21 Nov 2016
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Everyone in society should be treated equally before the law (regardless of their political, social values) The principle of the rule of law appears in the legal culture of the greeks and romans. Magna carta most famous legal documents in the democratic world. > the seeds of the rule of law were planted with the magna carta. A. v. dicey, one of the fathers of modern english constitutional law > gave the rule of law doctrine significance with 3 key points: No one can b punished except for breaking an established law determined by the processes of the courts. No one is above the law not even the king (rulers) judicial processes make rulings to make sure that no one is above the law. Personal rights and liberties must be protected by giving every person the ability to apply to the courts for a cure should any of those rights and liberties be infringed.
