negara hukum
Indonesian
editEtymology
editCompound of negara (“state”) + hukum (“law”), calque of Dutch rechtsstaat (literally “law state”), from German Rechtsstaat coined by Carl Theodor Welcker in 1813.
Noun
editnegara hukum (first-person possessive negara hukumku, second-person possessive negara hukummu, third-person possessive negara hukumnya)
- (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.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “negara hukum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.