Mill’s 1859 rule-of-law state barely outlasted Mill’s own lifetime

Evidence

The state based on the rule of law along the lines that Mill articulated in 1859, and which underpins Hayek’s critique of modernity, barely outlasted Mill’s lifetime. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 390

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s goal of understanding the liberal state Hayek idealized as historical baseline for the neoliberal project.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 390