rule of law
A2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The principle that everyone, including the government, is subject to and accountable under law that is publicly promulgated and equally enforced.
An unfettered discretion immune from any challenge would be inconsistent with the rule of law.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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