On Rules
Frontmatter -- Introduction: Gherardo Colombo's Concern for the Democratic State under the Rule of Law: A Work in Progress / Foqué, René -- 1. An Imaginary Country -- Contents -- Part I. The Ambiguities of Justice -- 2. Law and Justice -- 3. Laws Differing in Time and Space -- 4. 'Justice' is an Ambiguous Word -- 5. Law Comes From God -- 6. Law is Just If It is 'Natural' -- 7. Law is Just When It Exists -- 8. From Subject to Citizen -- Part II. Horizontal Society and Vertical Society -- 9. The Vertical Society -- 10. The Horizontal Society -- 11. Structure of the Two Models -- 12. Consequences of the Vertical Society -- 13. Consequences of the Horizontal Society -- 14. Fundamental Rights According to the Two Models -- 15. Sanctions According to the Vertical Model -- 16. The Consequences to Offences in the Horizontal Society -- 17. Victim and Offender -- 18. Limits to Personal Liberty -- 19. Vertical Society, Horizontal Society, Ideology and Religion -- Part III. Towards a Horizontal Society -- 20. An Attempt to Justify Law at the End of the Second Millennium -- 21. The Limits of International Rules -- 22. An Attempt at Creating a Horizontal Society: the Italian Constitution -- 23. The Person Comes First -- 24. What is Missing? -- 25. Uncertainties in the Constitutional Process -- 26. Culture -- 27. The Interests of Those Who Oppose the Horizontal Society -- 28. Security -- 29. Escaping Responsibility -- Part IV. How Do We Get There? -- 30. The Time Dynamic -- 31. Self-Awareness -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments