This alignment of two names might seem at least strange or exaggerated: Leon Duguit and Nicolae Steinhardt. At the time of defending the thesis in 1936 by Nicolae Steinhardt, a young man of 24, Leon Duguit was no longer alive, but he had left an impressive scientific work. That is, it would be said that there is no place for comparison, the equality of arms being utopian. And yet the comparison is opportune, because it is about ideas to which history may or may not have given its answer. The article is developed within the Project “Modernization of governing mechanisms focused on the protection of human rights”, cipher 20.80009.1606.15, in the Scientific Research Laboratory “Compared Public Law and e-Government”, Law Faculty, Moldova State University.