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Etymology

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Compound of negara (state) +‎ hukum (law), calque of Dutch rechtsstaat (literally law state), from German Rechtsstaat coined by Carl Theodor Welcker in 1813.

Noun

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negara hukum (first-person possessive negara hukumku, second-person possessive negara hukummu, third-person possessive negara hukumnya)

  1. (government, law) rechtsstaat, a doctrine in continental European legal thinking, with emphasise what is just, in which the exercise of governmental power is constrained by the law.

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