Subject(s): legal reforms -- Problems -- Lineages of rule of law, power, rules and compliance , obedience and obligation in Rechtsstaat, postscript to political foundations of democracy and role of law, why dopolitical parties obey results of elections -- Majoritarian reading of rule of law, cost imposition through decentralized mechanisms, dictatorship and rule of law- rules and military power in Pinochet's chile -- Courts as an instrument of horizontal accountability, rule of democracy and rule of law, rule of law as political weapon, rule of law and problem of legal reform in Michel de Montaigne's Essais