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Page xv
... legislature prevent the abuse of Article 48 ? The German courts — as Rossiter notes and readers will recall from the 1965 film , Judgment at Nuremburg — made only a small show of trying to restrain the use of Article 48. Indeed , it was ...
... legislature prevent the abuse of Article 48 ? The German courts — as Rossiter notes and readers will recall from the 1965 film , Judgment at Nuremburg — made only a small show of trying to restrain the use of Article 48. Indeed , it was ...
Page xvi
... legislature's duty is to translate the Rossiter criteria into effective limits . Weimar failed because the Reichstag failed to perform its crucial function . Congress , in the current crisis setting , should be in continuous session ...
... legislature's duty is to translate the Rossiter criteria into effective limits . Weimar failed because the Reichstag failed to perform its crucial function . Congress , in the current crisis setting , should be in continuous session ...
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... legislature is unequal to the task of day - to - day , emergency lawmaking , and that it must therefore hand over its functions to someone better qualified to enact arbitrary crisis laws . On its face this would not seem to be a ...
... legislature is unequal to the task of day - to - day , emergency lawmaking , and that it must therefore hand over its functions to someone better qualified to enact arbitrary crisis laws . On its face this would not seem to be a ...
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... legislature and bespeak. p.121 . 7 The law of necessity was particularly dear to the German jurists of the pre - 1914 era , and received its classic statement ( complete , with authorities ) in Josef Kohler's controversial Not kennt kein ...
... legislature and bespeak. p.121 . 7 The law of necessity was particularly dear to the German jurists of the pre - 1914 era , and received its classic statement ( complete , with authorities ) in Josef Kohler's controversial Not kennt kein ...
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Clinton Rossiter. Locke could champion the supremacy of the legislature and bespeak the Whig fear of overweening executive power , but even he had to admit that it was the undefined power of this organ — the Crown's prerogative " to act ...
Clinton Rossiter. Locke could champion the supremacy of the legislature and bespeak the Whig fear of overweening executive power , but even he had to admit that it was the undefined power of this organ — the Crown's prerogative " to act ...
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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