Replying to LO27502 --
Dear Organlearners,
Benjamin Compton <thecastingdeck@hotmail.com> writes:
>At said:
>>"I think that you had a special one in mind
>> during the entire essay -- the Rule Of Law
>> (ROL)"
>
>My question is: What do you mean by
>"the rule of law"? The rule of any law,
>regardless of how just it is? The rule of
>only just laws?
Greetings dear Benjamin,
Thank you for your contribution. I am glad that you are back.
You ask very important questions. The ROL concerns the attitude of members
of an organisation towards all the laws or rules which have been
formulated for that organisation. For example, some members are not above
some of the laws/rules while the rest are under them. Furthermore, the
explicit formulation of laws/rules are needed to prevent some members to
become laws/rules themselves as they wish.
The ROL also entails that unjust laws have to be changed swiftly in a
lawful manner.
>Further complicating the issue, is who's standard
>of what is a law does one follow?
This is why a constitution is needed. It is the minimum standard on which
all memebers have to agree. That is why concencus in the formulating of
the constitution is crucially important.
>Certainly the rule of law that liberates one
>may bring tyranny to another? And one set
>of organizational policies may bring out the
>best of some and the worst in others.
Rules and laws in the absence of ROL will certainly cause those ordinate
bifurcations, but not ROL itself. Actually, the spirit of ROL is to
prevent such ordinate bifurcations as far as possible. I personally think
that jurisprudence will have to begin taking into account what complexity
science is beginning to uncover of ordinate bifurcations which happen on
the ridge of chaos.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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