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  • The Fog of Law

    Author(s)
    Trevaskes, Sue
    Nesossi, Elisa
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Trevaskes, Sue E.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    To understand what the rule of law actually means, we need to look closely at the October 2014 Resolution, because it states that Party leadership and the rule of law are identical. It also describes the rule of law as integrating two ancient traditions of law and governance: the Legalist tradition of ‘ruling the nation according to the law’ with the Confucian principle of ‘ruling the nation by morality’ 以德治国. The latter associates political order with the moral authority of a nation’s leaders. The interests of a morally upright leadership are identical to those of the people they govern—and so, by this logic, the law can ...
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    To understand what the rule of law actually means, we need to look closely at the October 2014 Resolution, because it states that Party leadership and the rule of law are identical. It also describes the rule of law as integrating two ancient traditions of law and governance: the Legalist tradition of ‘ruling the nation according to the law’ with the Confucian principle of ‘ruling the nation by morality’ 以德治国. The latter associates political order with the moral authority of a nation’s leaders. The interests of a morally upright leadership are identical to those of the people they govern—and so, by this logic, the law can and should be used to sustain the power of the ruling (Communist) party. Hence, the rule of law can be understood to mean Party-Rule-Through-Law.
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    Book Title
    Pollution: China Story Yearbook 2015
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.22459/CSY.09.2016
    Subject
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/143200
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