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The Myth of the Rule of Law

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2011–2018
peak thread · 69 comments
100 pts
latest 20+ return · 2015-11-24
86 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I almost didn't bother to read this because it sure as hell looks like a crackpot tract, but I found a gem of a tl;dr in the third section: Because the legal world is comprised of contradictory rules, there will be sound legal arguments available not only for the hypothesis one is investigating, but for other, competing hypotheses as well. The assumption that there is a unique, correct resolution, which serves so well in empirical investigations, leads one astray when…

hugh3·100-point thread·

The exercise in the article is really fantastic: > Unless your responses were: 1) False, 2) True, 3) True, 4) False, 5) True, 6) True, and 7) True, you chose to interpret at least one of the words "Congress," "no," "law," "speech," and "press" in what can only be described as something other than its ordinary sense. Why did you do this? Were your responses based on the "plain meaning" of the words or on certain normative beliefs you hold…

rayiner·86-point thread·

This is brilliant and fascinating until the part where it goes off the rails into the "free markets solve all problems" swamp.

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
191

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
105

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2011-05-05The Myth of the Rule of LawFirst breakout · Best threadataggart10035
2015-11-24The Myth of the Rule of Law (1995)Latest 20+ point returnTomte8669
2018-07-04The Myth of the Rule of Lawmichael_fine51