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... Constitutional dictatorship: crisis government in the modern democracies / Clinton Rossiter; with a new introduction by William J. Quirk. p.cm. Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1948. Includes ...
... Constitutional dictatorship: crisis government in the modern democracies / Clinton Rossiter; with a new introduction by William J. Quirk. p.cm. Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1948. Includes ...
Page ix
... constitutional dictatorship has served as an indispensable factor in maintaining constitutional democracy . President Lincoln acted illegally when , on April 27 , 1861 , reacting to Baltimore mobs interfering with troop trains moving ...
... constitutional dictatorship has served as an indispensable factor in maintaining constitutional democracy . President Lincoln acted illegally when , on April 27 , 1861 , reacting to Baltimore mobs interfering with troop trains moving ...
Page x
... Constitutional difficulty plagued him . " Moreover , Riddle continued , the ... constitutional power nor diminish constitutional restriction " ( Ex parte Milligan ) ... democracy , as a matter of survival , has a mechanism either express or ...
... Constitutional difficulty plagued him . " Moreover , Riddle continued , the ... constitutional power nor diminish constitutional restriction " ( Ex parte Milligan ) ... democracy , as a matter of survival , has a mechanism either express or ...
Page xii
... constitutional dicta- torship are , in Rossiter's phrase , " political and social dynamite . " The question " of first importance , " of course , is to secure the democracy against the dangers inherent in the dynamite . The primary ...
... constitutional dicta- torship are , in Rossiter's phrase , " political and social dynamite . " The question " of first importance , " of course , is to secure the democracy against the dangers inherent in the dynamite . The primary ...
Page xv
... democracy failed . Chancellor Hitler , in 1933 , issued his first de- crees pursuant to Article 48. After that , he discarded the Weimar Constitution . The Weimar model , of course , is not one we would want to follow , but some believe ...
... democracy failed . Chancellor Hitler , in 1933 , issued his first de- crees pursuant to Article 48. After that , he discarded the Weimar Constitution . The Weimar model , of course , is not one we would want to follow , but some believe ...
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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