As Russia is learning each day, the rule of law, particularly as it applies to individual equality before the law and to property rights, is essential for a dynamic, entrepreneurial economy.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

Highly populated places can prosper when people are free to start businesses, keep most of what they earn and are protected by the Rule of Law, especially pertaining to property rights and individual equality before the law.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Highly populated places can prosper when people are free to start businesses, keep most of what they earn and are protected by the Rule of Law, especially pertaining to property rights and individual equality.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

How surprising then in this 21st Century, when sexual equality is a legally enforceable rule in most walks of our national life, to find that when it comes to the rules of succession to the British throne, women are the victims of the most blatant discrimination.

BBC: Why the monarchy discriminates

Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.

ECONOMIST: Liberty's great advance