id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7761 Rechtsstaat - Wikipedia .html text/html 2006 203 63 A Rechtsstaat is a "constitutional state" in which the exercise of governmental power is constrained by the law.[2] It is closely related to "constitutionalism" while is often tied to the Anglo-American concept of the rule of law, but differs from it in that it also emphasizes what is just (i.e., a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, or equity). The actual expression Rechtsstaat appears to have been introduced by Carl Theodor Welcker in 1813,[10][11] but it was popularised by Robert von Mohl's book Die deutsche Polizeiwissenschaft nach den Grundsätzen des Rechtsstaates ("German Policy Science according to the Principles of the Constitutional State"; 1832–33). Rechtsstaat, Fundamental Concept of Democracy – "The legislature is bound by the constitutional order, the executive and the judiciary by law and right." (Article 20(3) GG) Russian model of Rechtsstaat: a concept of the legal state[edit] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7761.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7761.txt