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1、IstheRuleofLawanEssentiallyContestedConcept(InFlorida)?Author(s):JeremyWaldronSource:LawandPhilosophy,Vol.21,No.2,IntheWakeofBushv.Gore:Law,LegitimacyandJudicialEthics(Mar.,2002),pp.137-164Publishedby:SpringerStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3505128.Accessed:
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4、ophy.http://www.jstor.orgThiscontentdownloadedfrom160.39.50.106onMon,10Jun201320:55:39PMAllusesubjecttoJSTORTermsandConditionsJEREMYWALDRONISTHERULEOFLAWANESSENTIALLYCONTESTEDCONCEPT(INFLORIDA)?I.THEFLORIDADEBACLEOneoftheremarkablefeaturesoftheturmoilsurroundingth
5、ecountingandrecountingofvotesintheStateofFloridainthe2000U.S.PresidentialElectionwasthefrequencywithwhich"theRuleofLaw"wasinvoked.Letmecounttheways.1WhentheFloridasecretaryofState,KatherineHarris,announcedhercertificationoftheresult,shesaid,"[t]hetruevictorintheFl
6、oridaelectionistheRuleofLaw";buthercriticssaidthatherpatentpoliticalbias-shewasalsoco-chairoftheBushcampaigninFlorida-wasanaffronttotheRuleofLaw.Whenthetwosidesbegantheirvariouscampaignsoflitigation,weweretoldthattheirwillingnesstotakecontentiouspoliticalissuestoc
7、ourtwasatributetotheRuleofLawintheUnitedStates;butwewerealsotoldthatlitigationunderminedtheRuleofLaw,sinceitshowedtheparties'unwillingnesstoletanylegaldecisionstand.TheauthorizationofrecountsbytheFloridacourtsappearedtosometheantithesisoftheRuleofLaw,solongasnocle
8、arruleswerelaiddowntogovernthecounting.(Indeed,theDemocrat-appointedmajorityonFlorida'sSupremeCourtwasaccusedofjudicialusurpationoftheRuleofLaw.)Butothe
