Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, January 12 2010 @ 07:42 AM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
The Rule of Law, more than the rule of contract, should probably be regarded as the true opposite of the rule of status. It is the Rule of Law, in the sense of the rule of formal law, teh absence of legal privileges of particular people designated by authority, which safeguards that equality before the law which is the opposite of arbitrary government.
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