The law would become a more binding constraint on rulers under certain specific conditions: if it was codified into an authoritative text; if the content of the law was determined by specialists in law rather than political authorities; and finally if the law was protected by an institutional order separate from the political hierarchy, with its own resources and power of appointment.
...dimensions of institutionalized law: codification, legal specialization, institutional autonomy.引自 The State Becomes a Church
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