The Rule of Law: Sean McCandless.

"The rule of law" is a much lauded concept in that as "political morality [...] it refers to the ascendancy of law [...] and of the institutions of the legal system in a system of governance." These points raise two further questions: What happens when the rule of law is not enough, or even when the rule of law is the problem? A problem with saying the examples above are "not the rule of law" or "the rule of law is not being adhered to in those examples" or that "you may not like it, but it is still the rule of law" is that it misses a key point: If the rule of law can be violated so easily, if it does not provide equitable and just protections, and if it actually maintains unjust systems, then we may need to rethink just how lauded this concept is. [Extracted from the article]