1. Starting the idea to limit the power of the State government.
2. Suggestions were selected for this purpose is Constitutional Democracy.
3. Formulation of Juridical and Constitutional Democracy is a concept of constitutional state.
Rule of law is a law legalism which implies the idea that justice can be served through the creation of regulatory systems and procedures are objective, impartial, impersonal and autonomous
Rule of law is a common law concept of all aspects of the country that upholds the rule of law is built upon the principles of justice and egalitarianism. Rule of law is the rule by law instead of rule by the man.
Justice must apply to everyone, hence was born the doctrine of "Rule Of Law". According to (Fried Man, 1959) The rule of law is the doctrine of the spirit and ideals of justice. Rule of law distinguished between:
1. Definition of formal (in the formal sence) which organized public power or public power is organized, such as country
2. Understanding the essentials (ideological sense) are closely related to uphold the rule of law because it involves legal measures of good and bad.
However, it is recognized that it is difficult to provide an understanding of rule of law, but the point remains the same, that the rule of law should guarantee that obtained the relevant community or nation is seen as justice, particularly social justice (Sunarjati Hartono, 1982).
Rule Of Law as a social institution has its own social structure and culture memperakar own (Satjipto Raharjo; 2003). Rule Of Law grew and developed hundreds of years along with the growth of European society, so that social and cultural memperakar Europe, not a neutral institution.
   According to Philip M.Hadjon, that the law states that according to Dutch terminology rechtsstaat born out of a struggle against absolutism, that of the king's power arbitrarily to create a state based on a undanagan laws. Therefore, in the development process rechtsstaat it is characterized by a revolutionary.