rule of law and order

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• State Law and Order Restoration Council —    (SLORC)    The martial law regime that seized power on September 18, 1988. Reorganized as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in November 1997, it is a junta consisting of the highest ranking military officers. According to SLORC… …   Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)

• Economy and Economic Policy, State Law and Order Restoration Council —    / State Peace and Development Council Era    (1988 )    The Burma Socialist Programme Party Extraordinary Congress, held in July 1988, determined that the socialist economic policy that had been in force since 1962 would be scrapped. In… …   Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)

• Rule of law — The rule of law, in its most basic form, is the principle that no one is above the law. Thomas Paine stated in his pamphlet Common Sense (1776): For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and… …   Wikipedia

• rule of law — noun the doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it. See Also: law and order …   Wiktionary

• Law and Chaos — are the dominant metaphysical forces in the fantasy stories of Michael Moorcock, which he derived from Poul Anderson (especially his Three Hearts and Three Lions ). Law and Chaos are in constant struggle, but they are kept in check by the Cosmic… …   Wikipedia

• law — / lȯ/ n [Old English lagu, of Scandinavian origin] 1: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a: a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute 1 b:… …   Law dictionary

• order — or·der 1 n 1: a state of peace, freedom from unruly behavior, and respect for law and proper authority maintain law and order 2: an established mode or state of procedure a call to order 3 a: a mandate from a superior authority see also …   Law dictionary

• LAW AND MORALITY — In the Bible In the Pentateuch, legal and moral norms are not distinguished by any definitional criteria. The manner of presentation of both is via revelation – moral norms are not presented as wisdom but rather as prophetic revelation. Thus the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• rule of law — noun a state of order in which events conform to the law • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑order * * * 1. : a legal rule : a determination of the applicable rule as distinguished from a finding of fact 2. : adherence to due process of… …   Useful english dictionary

• Law and literature — The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. Believed to have originally begun as a subcategory of jurisprudence, the movement encompasses the complementary ideas of law in literature and …   Wikipedia

• Law and Law Codes —    Prior to their contacts with the Roman Empire in the migration period, the Germanic, or barbarian, peoples of Europe had no written laws or legal codes. The nature of the law was customary. Law was remembered and passed along through an oral… …   Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe