Of course, if men are making the rules in the first place, you no closer to having a government of law. The closest we can come to having a true government of

Of course, if men are making the rules in the first place, you no closer to having a government of law. The closest we can come to having a true government of law is for the process that generates law to be rooted entirely in natural law theory, where the law is "discovered" instead of created. Common law and equity are at least traditionally an attempt at this, but any system that makes room for positive law, or contains any sort of legislative institution, can't even be described as an attempt at a government of law.