For excellent explorations of these matters in recent legal scholarship, see Richard H. Fallon, "The Rule of Law" as a Concept in Constitutional Discourse, 97 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (1997); Richard A. Posner, Overcoming Law (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 20-21; Margaret Jane Radin Reconsidering the Rule of Law, 69 Boston U. L. Rev. 781 (1989).