Comment by Gravityloss
10 hours ago
I am not a historian but the difference is between a society with a "rule of law" and "law of the jungle". Probably high democracy correlates with rule of law, but they are not the same thing.
10 hours ago
I am not a historian but the difference is between a society with a "rule of law" and "law of the jungle". Probably high democracy correlates with rule of law, but they are not the same thing.
I don’t think this is true. 20th century authoritarians made great effort to leverage the law and use legal systems.
Rule of law doesn’t address the problem of bad laws (from bad governance).
Don't confuse having courts with rule of law. Read up in the thread, someone mentioned how important separation of powers is. I can't stress how true this idea is. In authoritarian regimes, courts are under the control of the dictator, not a separate branch who will overrule even their own political party (as just happened in the US and regularly happens all over the west).
The claim here was rule of law. Separation of powers is not equivalent.