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rule of law (uncountable)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (law, often capitalized) The doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it.
- (law) The maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rule, law.
the doctrine that no individual is above the law
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: estáu de derechu m
- Azerbaijani: qanunun aliliyi
- Belarusian: вяршэнства закону (vjaršenstva zakónu), вяршэнства права (vjaršenstva prava)
- Bulgarian: върховенство на закона n (vǎrhovenstvo na zakona)
- Catalan: imperi de la llei m, estat de dret m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 法治 (zh) (fǎzhì)
- Czech: právní stát m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: laillisuusperiaate (fi)
- French: État de droit (fr) m
- Galician: estado de dereito (gl)
- Georgian: კანონის უზენაესობა (ḳanonis uzenaesoba), სამართლის უზენაესობა (samartlis uzenaesoba), სამართლისა და კანონის უზენაესობის პრინციპი (samartlisa da ḳanonis uzenaesobis ṗrinciṗi)
- German: Rechtstaatlichkeit f, Rechtsstaat (de) m (constitutional state)
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: שלטון החוק m (shiltón hakhók)
- Hungarian: joguralom
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: supremasi hukum
- Irish: forlámhas an dlí m
- Japanese: 法の支配 (ja) (ほうのしはい, hō no shihai)
- Kazakh: заң билігі (zañ bilıgı)
- Khmer: នីតិរដ្ឋ (ni teh roth)
- Korean: 법치(法治) (ko) (beopchi), 법치주의(法治主義) (ko) (beopchijuui)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: praworządność (pl) f
- Romanian: stat de drept n
- Russian: верхове́нство пра́ва n (verxovénstvo práva), верхове́нство зако́на n (verxovénstvo zakóna), но́рма пра́ва (ru) f (nórma práva)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: imperio de la ley m, Estado de derecho m
- Swedish: rättsstat (sv) c
- Tajik: волоияти қонун (voloyiyat-i qonun)
- Thai: นิติธรรม (th) (ní-dtì-tam)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: верхове́нство пра́ва (uk) n (verxovénstvo práva)
- Vietnamese: pháp quyền (vi)
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the maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles
