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Page ix
... adopt . The " inescapable truth , " Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis , Constitutional Dictatorship , is that " No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the ...
... adopt . The " inescapable truth , " Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis , Constitutional Dictatorship , is that " No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the ...
Page xiii
... adopted , no right invaded , no regu- lar procedure altered any more than is absolutely necessary for the conquest of the particular crisis . Certain it is that no normal institutions ought to be declared unsuited to crisis conditions ...
... adopted , no right invaded , no regu- lar procedure altered any more than is absolutely necessary for the conquest of the particular crisis . Certain it is that no normal institutions ought to be declared unsuited to crisis conditions ...
Page xiv
... adopted in the prosecution of Constitutional Dictatorship should never be permanent in character or effect . " He explains that " emergency powers are strictly conditioned by their purpose which is the restoration of normal conditions ...
... adopted in the prosecution of Constitutional Dictatorship should never be permanent in character or effect . " He explains that " emergency powers are strictly conditioned by their purpose which is the restoration of normal conditions ...
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... adopt during the first feverish weeks of the Civil War . If he had been living in 1942 , he might have framed his question in more modern terms . He might have asked : " Can a democracy fight a successful total war and still be a ...
... adopt during the first feverish weeks of the Civil War . If he had been living in 1942 , he might have framed his question in more modern terms . He might have asked : " Can a democracy fight a successful total war and still be a ...
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... adoption of measures designed to save the state and its people from the destructive effects of the particular crisis . And the narrow duty to be pursued by this strong government , this constitutional dictator- ship ? Simply this and ...
... adoption of measures designed to save the state and its people from the destructive effects of the particular crisis . And the narrow duty to be pursued by this strong government , this constitutional dictator- ship ? Simply this and ...
Contents
11 | |
III | 33 |
2305 | 61 |
THE STATE OF SIEGE IN HISTORY LAW AND THEORY | 79 |
THE FIRST WORLD | 91 |
X | 135 |
XI | 151 |
CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN 19191939 | 173 |
CRISIS GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES | 207 |
THE CIVIL | 223 |
FIRST WORLD | 240 |
THE NEW DEAL AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION | 255 |
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN | 265 |
XIX | 288 |
INDEX | 315 |
XIII | 184 |
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Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies Clinton Lawrence Rossiter No preview available - 1948 |
Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies Clinton Rossiter No preview available - 2017 |
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