RE: Good Reads: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.
What are the rules of principle?
Principle a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
The rule of law is the principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by decisions of individual government officials.
The rule of law is the "authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior, the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes"
Rule of law implies that every person is subject to the law, including people who are lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and judges.
A principle is a concept or value that is a guide for behavior or evaluation. In law, it is a rule that has to be, or usually is to be followed, or can be desirably followed, or is an inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws observed in nature or the way that a system is constructed. The principles of such a system are understood by its users as the essential characteristics of the system, or reflecting system's designed purpose, and the effective operation or use of which would be impossible if any one of the principles was to be ignored.
Rule of law implies that every person is subject to the law, including people who are lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and judges. In this sense, it stands in contrast to an autocracy, dictatorship, or oligarchy where the rulers are held above the law. Lack of the rule of law can be found in both democracies and dictatorships, for example because of neglect or ignorance of the law, and the rule of law is more apt to decay if a government has insufficient corrective mechanisms for restoring it. Government based upon the rule of law is called nomocracy.
The rule of law is a real-world phenomenon. We interact through decentralized protocols governed by code. Interestingly, this difference means the space occupied by a subjective rule of law is collapsed into objective instructions that all can observe and be confident of their operation.
Long Live Rule of Code. Long Live Bitshares.