With the passage of time, spreading was the teaching and the movement which
required legal and constitutional restrictions of power and then absolutism to be overcome
and replaced by different, more liberal or democratic forms where the local self-government and many other forms of social organizing had their role in the development
of the so-called civilian society, liberalized regime of production and trade. All that
required stable political conditions and that which was then called the rule of law or
Rechtsstaat. David Hume, a great British (Scottish) philosopher and political and law
thinker, spoke in the 18th century that democracy was not needed for the economic
development, but that the rule of law was necessary for such development.