These two rules are very important foundational rules that have directed international relations since 1945.
After all, despite the rise of the other superpower, the Soviet Union, Washington was by then the world sovereign and so could decide which should be the exceptions to its own rules, particularly to the foundational principle for all this global governance: sovereignty.
But what should the foundational principle be?
A book can only teach one foundational principles, rules and regulations.
As the country lurches ever onward toward greater centralized bureaucratic control, the foundational precept of Rule of Law is quietly being replaced with Rule of Rules.
Magna Carta has been taken as foundational to the rule of law, chiefly because in it King John promised that he would stop throwing people into dungeons whenever he wished, a provision that lies behind what is now known as due process of law and is understood not as a promise made by a king but as a right possessed by the people.
His focus is on an obscure, Reagan-era executive order that serves as a foundational set of rules for the intelligence apparatus.
This law is a foundational semantic principle for classical logic.
This fourth rule is foundational to the other three.
In an opinion written by Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr., the panel unexpectedly overturned a lower court and ruled that neither the nation's foundational securities laws, adopted in 1934, nor a "housekeeping" rule adopted by Finra in 1990 gave it the right to pursue its monetary sanctions in court.
