An element in the history of the Rule of Law following the English conception is the fact, different from other states and legal systems, at the end of the Middle Ages, there already existed in England a centuries-old legal tradition, with its own system of education and body of knowledge, which made that courts could indepently withstand attempts at regal interference.
An increasingly specialized and autonomous legal profession administered law and took care of its regular implementation with courts established at the center of this institutional complex and judges who served as "the guardians of and spokesman for the law".
An increasingly specialized and autonomous legal profession administered law and took care of its regular implementation with courts established at the center of this institutional complex and judges who served as "the guardians of and spokesman for the law".
