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The rule of war

14 October 2010 / Francis Neate , Ian Pease
Issue: 7437 / Categories: Opinion , Constitutional law
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It’s the “nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion”, thus writes the late, great and sorely missed Tom (Lord) Bingham in his book The Rule of Law. If that’s true, how assiduously are we keeping the faith?

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, say Ian Pease &
Francis Neate

It’s the “nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion”, thus writes the late, great and sorely missed Tom (Lord) Bingham in his book The Rule of Law. If that’s true, how assiduously are we keeping the faith? Ian Pease & Francis Neate debate below how the rule of law can be upheld in that most critical of decisions—that to go to war.

I-wreck the rule of law

On 20 March 2003 the UK entered one of the most controversial wars of modern times. Prior to the commencement of the second Iraq war there had been a weekend of protests with hundreds of rallies in about sixty countries. Prime Minister Tony Blair was unmoved, stating that he did not “seek unpopularity as

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