Unimpeded access to a lawyer is part of our concept of the rule of law," Curling said.
How any government that had even heard of the concept of the rule of law could have countenanced locking people up for three months without charge beggars belief.
That said, the candidates, Congress and citizens must respect, in deference to the sacred concept of the rule of law, what the court decides.
Only this concept of the rule of law would prevent a law being enacted to regulate the use of torture, for example.
When campaigners met in July to propose a modern, democratic system, one of the king's wives had the gall to attend, and to speak approvingly of the concept of the rule of law.
Another impediment to absolute rule in Europe, in Dr. Fukuyama's telling, was that the concept of the rule of law emerged very early, largely because of the church's development of canon law in the 11th century.
In this way the concept of the rule of law came gradually to be identified with the idea that the judges, in ordinary legal proceedings in the ordinary courts, could pronounce upon the lawfulness of the activities of the executive.
In addition, it examines how the concept of the rule of law is perceived by the strong centrist state governed by a political party that has been in power since 1959 and continues to hold almost hegemonic power.
But these elements should be subsumed under the broader concept of the rule of law.Implementation of the rule of law implies a realignment of the relationship between government and governed, and a reiteration of the rules of the game (laws and rights) and their implementation (the judiciary, law enforcement, citizens' attitudes).
This is such an affront to the notion of "a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal," guaranteed in writing elsewhere in the constitutional firmament, and is so fundamentally illogical and arbitrary, that it cannot be reconciled with the concept of the rule of law itself.
For Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and any other former dictatorship to reform the concept of the rule of law, they will need to change their constitutions and legal codes in regard to public protests, and almost certainly, the judges and police that enforce them.
