Rechtsstaat
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Rechtsstaat is a doctrine in continental European legal thinking, originating in German jurisprudence. It can also be translated as "rule-of-law state", "legal state", "state of justice", or "state ba
The Law, between Justice and State Power, allegory by Dominique Antoine Magaud (1899)
German stamp (1981). Rechtsstaat, Fundamental Concept of Democracy – "The legislature is bound by the constitutional order, the executive and the judiciary by law and right." (Article 20(3) GG)
Police state
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A police state is a state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties. There is typically little to no distinction between the law and the exerc
Rechtsstaat
…citizens share legally based civil liberties and can use the courts. In continental European legal thinking, the Rechtsstaat is contrasted with both the police state and the État légal. German writers usually place the theories of German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) at the beginning of their accounts of the…
Demonstration in Amsterdam in 1963 against the police state (politiestaat) in Portuguese Angola during the Angolan War of Independence
"No to police state" banner in Ukraine
Hafez al Assad official portrait
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