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What is 'rule of law'?

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Where common welfare can be promoted.

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Where fundamental rights are guaranteed and treated as limitation upon the government.

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Where it rejects the right of one or few to rule over the others.

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All of above

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Solution

The correct option is A Where fundamental rights are guaranteed and treated as limitation upon the government.
It is only in democracy that the rule of persons and classes is replaced by the "rule of law"; where fundamental rights are guaranteed and treated as limitations upon the government.

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