Law
Law is the discipline of enforceable ideas. Codifiers, constitutionalists and judges are indexed here for the specific instruments — codes, charters, landmark rulings — that later systems copied.
3 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 3 countries
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Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCERepublican theory and oratory that still frame constitutional argument.
Italy·Politics · Philosophy · Law
Montesquieu
1689 – 1755Separation of powers, copied into nearly every written constitution since.
France·Politics · Law
John Rawls
1921 – 2002A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.
United States·Philosophy · Law