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Full Idea
The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall.
Gist of Idea
The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B044), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.2
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.27
A Reaction
This may be the first recorded assertion of the rule of law, and hence of the separation of powers. We still have plenty of people who reject this principle.
22824 | Magna Carta forbids prison without trial, and insists on neutral and correct process [-, by Charvet] |
422 | The people should fight for the law as if for their city-wall [Heraclitus] |
7810 | The 'Eumenides' of Aeschylus shows blood feuds replaced by law [Aeschylus, by Grayling] |
22551 | Correct law should be in control, with rulers only deciding uncertain issues [Aristotle] |
22554 | It is said that we should not stick strictly to written law, as it is too vague [Aristotle] |
2827 | It is preferable that law should rule rather than any single citizen [Aristotle] |
19891 | Rule of law is superior to autonomy, because citizens can see what is expected [Hooker,R] |
22827 | Justice superior to the rule of law is claimed on behalf of the workers, or the will of the nation [Charvet] |
22823 | The rule of law is mainly to restrict governments [Charvet] |
22826 | From 1701 only parliament could remove judges, whose decisions could not be discussed [Charvet] |
22825 | The 1689 Bill of Rights denied the monarch new courts, or the right to sit as judge [Charvet] |
22828 | The rule of law mainly benefits those with property and liberties [Charvet] |