The Rule of Law State as a Dynamic Phenomenon: A New Approach to the Concept

In legal science, approaches to the rule of law directly affect the identification of its nature. Until now, there has been no unified understanding of the rule of law in scholarship. The paper is devoted to the analysis and comparison of approaches to the rule of law and identification of contradictions between them. The modern rule-of-law state has been intensively studied in Russia since 1985. The concept of the rule-of-law state is presented in many monographs, textbooks and articles in academic journals. The author argues that a rule-of-law state is primarily a state. However, further opinions differ when specifying this concept. Some authors argue that the ruleof-law state is an independent type of the state. Others believe that the rule-of-law state is a form of organization of political power. There is an opinion that the rule-of-law state is a form of development of the state, its possible future. All approaches to the rule-of-law state do not fully reflect the nature of the rule-of-law state. The paper proposes an approach to the rule-of-law state as a form of organization of state power and society, which will allow flexibly building a rule-of-law state in many countries with various domestic characteristics. The rule-of-law state is only a stage in the process of State development. It is certainly in constant motion and will continue to evolve in accordance with the changing society.

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