In the article, the rule of law is positioned as a universal principle of ensuring human rights, the main value of modern society. The history of formation, legal nature, the content of the rule of law as a principle, a legal phenomenon and a conceptual approach to modern human rights have been studied. Besides, the foreign experience of the implementation of the rule of law has been analyzed in the CIS countries, the European Council, the United States and researched mechanisms for ensuring the rule of law. The principle of the rule of law is presented as the only effective means of ensuring the inviolability of democracy, as well as one of its main features, and its provision and control is a guarantee of ensuring human rights to the extent that decent living conditions are created for every person.

The article also analyzes the value of the Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project (WJP) on the example of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Rule of law, constitutional rights, the rule of law index, limitation of government institutions’ competence, absence of corruption, order and security, protection of fundamental rights, transparency of government institutions, compliance with laws, civil justice, criminal justice

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