KPDS 1996-1 Soru=96

The writer suggests that a major distinctive feature of "law" is ____ .

After 1933 the Western World realised that it was living in
another age of absolutism, or rather, in an age of
totalitarian dictatorship far worse than the worst of the old
absolute kings; such regimes could be seen to be
enforcing a "law" that was the command hardly of a
"sovereign" but of a cruel and genocidal despot. It was
ordinary people who protested: "This cannot be law. Law,
if it is to deserve the name of law, must respect at least
some basic rights to which every human being is entitled
simply because he is human."