The final chapter of the book argues for a reorientation of priorities between the rule of law and tempered power, better to serve their common purpose. It is its potential contribution to tempered power that makes the rule of law matter, for and to the extent that it is among the possible and variable means that might help us achieve that goal. Thinking this way might involve displacing the rule of law from the centrality it has come to assume in lawyers’ offices and international press releases. However, it might help us focus more clearly on what we value it for, and what it might need to do, and combine with, to deliver that valued end. With that end in mind from the start, we might proceed with more specificity, precision, and nuance to ask what – along with other things though perhaps in distinctive, often indispensable ways – it might be able to contribute, where, when, and how. It is in everyone’s interest that power be tempered (though intemperates are reluctant to admit it), and so it is in everyone’s interest to seek out every which way that can be done.