Our security will remain in a state of deliquescence if we don’t correct serious design defects which rely on the gun and not the rule of law to guarantee security. To many people ,the term ‘Rule of law’ remains in the stable of legal jargons which neither puts food on the table nor delivers the security dividend. The reality is that the Rule of law is the foremost renewable public resource that preserves the peace and to which all public and private authority and power must yield. The gun may be the most recognizable trade dress of public authority and power but it must depend on the rule of law to keep the peace .The rule of law is the foundation of the modern state without which neither the state or the citizens can co-exist or function properly.It is the rule of la...
General law : a law that is unrestricted as to time, is applicable throughout the entire territory subject to the power of the legislature that enacted it, and applies to all persons in the same class —called also general act, general statute