The "Rule of Law" is the badge of a free people. The law seeks to bring about harmony and good fellowship based on justice in accordance with the moral and ethical sense of the community. In the modern State "Law" takes in, the entire body of principles in accordance with which justice is administered by the State; the objectives, the form and even the techniques are part of it. Let us first consider what has been native to our soil, all through the millenia — DHARMA. The Atharva Veda says : Satyam brihad ritam ugram diksha tapo  brahma yajnah prithvim dharayanti" (Truth, Eternal order that is great and stern, consecration, austerity, prayer and ritual—these uphold the earth—Ath. XII.1.1). SATYA (truth) and RITA (eternal order, discipline of eternal law) are two basic terms of ethical value used in the Vedas. Rita was originally the order of natural events such as the orderly appearance o ....