Magna Carta Libertatum from the year 1215, as the legal and political foundation, as well as the Universal Declaration on Human Rights from 1948, as a political and policy derivate, confirmed it. The French Revolution of 1789 defined it with a timeless slogan Equality, Brotherhood, Liberty (and with the French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen). The Ancient Roman law puts this more precisely and it is still relevant nowadays, both among lawyers and among the societies: let there be justice so that the world will not collapse (as a part of Habeas Corpus). There is a telling, primary and basic articulation in the Bible of what we understand today as a rule of law: “ treat others as you want to be treated”. Justice, Rule of Law and European Integration Process Hence, it has become an outstanding value that decisively marks the value system of contemporary international community, stemming originally from the heart of the Western civilization. It was a bright, windy and chilly day of Octothat – without its actors being exactly aware of – paved the way for the rule of law to become an irreversible fact. It was a hundred and forty years ago today that Wyatt Earp took his group to fight the outlaws of the Clanton gang. Milan Jazbec OK Corral 140 Years Later: Between Frontier Violence and the Emerging Rule of Law His article » OK Corral 140 Years Later: Between Frontier Violence and the Emerging Rule of Law« is published in its entirety. ![]() ![]() This is the utmost value that the European integration process has produced throughout its six decades as well as the cornerstone of the democracy as a most advanced form of governance. Ambassador Dr Milan Jazbec, Professor of diplomacy, poet and writer, employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, presents and analyses the world-renowned gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone in 1881 and the influence it had on the development of the concept of the rule of law. International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies ( IFIMES) from Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses developments in the Middle East, Balkans and also around the world.
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