The phrase "a rule of conduct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a guideline or principle that governs behavior in a specific context, such as ethics or organizational policies.
Example: "The company has established a rule of conduct that all employees must adhere to in order to maintain a professional work environment."
Alternatives: "a code of behavior" or "a standard of conduct."
"Conduct was governed by general principles; but to enforce a rule of conduct, it was necessary to find a remedy in a specific writ," Mr. Stevens wrote.
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For example, the intention to break a rule of conduct such as not lying, is conditioned both by the present volition and by traces left by similar volitional acts.
Conversely, "if we try to bring about conformity to a rule of conduct solely by the threat of force, we shall be treating persons merely as means, as objects of coercion, and not also as ends, engaging with their distinctive capacity as persons" (Larmore 1999, 607. Also see Larmore 2002 and Nagel 1987).
A maxim is a general truth, fundamental principle, or a rule of conduct that can be helpful in creating this alignment.
Sanction, defined by the Oxford American College Dictionary as "a consideration operating to enforce obedience to any rule of conduct" seems justifiable.
We might also do well to recall Jackson's eloquent words at Nuremberg on the principle of universality: "If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us".
In addition to the distinction between multilateral and bilateral treaties, there is also the distinction between treaties representing a definite transaction (e.g., a cession of territory) and those seeking to establish a general rule of conduct (e.g., the "renunciation of war").
Never did the United States follow as a "great rule of conduct" the advice laid out in Washington's Farewell Address: "to have... as little political connection as possible" with Europe.
In Mende ethics, "Wrongbehavior is regarded as a breaking of some specific rule of conduct, not as the flouting of some divine or absolute law of the universe" (Kenneth Little, in Forde, 1954 134).
