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India 's Rule Of Law Essay

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'In India we have the rule of constitutional law ' Comment. INTRODUCTION TO RULE OF LAW Long gone the age of Dicey when the supremacy of Law and rational legality was the cornerstone of the rule of law; now if we think of the situation like having different set of law and procedures to treat the people of the different class and status, then law creates such classes and supreme court of India has upheld such classification of law as to need in the disguise of the intelligible differentia and such classifications were not actually meant to the welfare measures. Here the main concern is the creation of classes in procedural laws even though we are having equality of law and supremacy of the constitution. Hence Generality of the Laws and law in particular stands as a basic notion of the rule of law in India now a days. The concept of Rule of Law is that the state is governed, not by the ruler or the nominated representatives of the people but by the law. The Constitution of India intended for India to be a country governed by the rule of law. It provides that the constitution shall be the supreme power in the land and the legislative and the executive derive their authority from the constitution. The King is not the law but the law is king.1 Rule of law can be traced back to Aristotle and has been championed by Roman jurists, middle age natural law thinkers, Enlightenment philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and J. J. Rousseau in their theory of social

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