The rule of law is considered to be one of the fundamental doctrines of the UK constitution and recognised in section 1 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. The nineteenth-century political theorist A. V. Dicey identified three core elements of the concept:
■ No person can be subject to punishment without breaking a law.
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