‘The Rule of Law is a principle that requires feasible limits on official power so as to constrain abuses on the part of even the most well-intentioned and compassionate of governments.’ ( J. Jowell,...

‘The Rule of Law is a principle that requires feasible limits on official power so as to constrain abuses on the part of even the most well-intentioned and compassionate of governments.’ ( J. Jowell, ‘The Rule of Law and its Underlying Values,’ in J. Jowell and D. Oliver (eds), The Changing Constitution , (7 then, Oxford: OUP, 2011) 11, 34)

How does the limitation imposed upon the state by the rule of law vary according to the different conceptions of the principle?