Its rhetorical power in aid of an argument about governmental authority, individual liberty, or constitutional legitimacy, makes the rule of law an object of understandable suspicion as much as one of reverence: its uncertain and contested content allows it to be too readily invoked in support of opinions whose cogency might not withstand careful scrutiny.
An edition of Constitutional justice
(2001)
Constitutional Justice
A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law
by T. R. S. Allan
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"Its rhetorical power in aid of an argument about governmental authority, individual liberty, or constitutional legitimacy, makes the rule of law an object of understandable suspicion as much as one of reverence: its uncertain and contested content allows it to be too readily invoked in support of opinions whose cogency might not withstand careful scrutiny."
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