A Communist Rechtsstaat?—The Case of Yugoslav Constitutionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6267307 |
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| Authors | Winston M Fisk (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-53 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1970.tb00492.x |
| OpenAlex | W1992637723 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
PLATO'S ACCOUNT OF THE PLACE OF LAW IN THE POLITICAL ORDER IS in two phases, One is found in the Republic. The Republic is utopian; it describes the ideal state. In this state law has no place; ideal rulers do not need to be bound by law in order to do justice, and governmental relationships need not be defined by law if they are by nature ideal. But later, in the Statesman and the Laws, Plato moves from the utopian and ideal to describing the best state practically obtainable – the second-best state, which because of the necessities of the human condition falls short of the ideal, the Utopia. Here law is readmitted, indeed is given high place; the second-best state, which is the best of earthly states, is in fact to be held together by the golden cord of the law
Economic Justice · Economics · Ideal (ethics · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Rule of law · Sociology · State (computer science · Utopia · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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