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Page xi
... ment are not realistic — when a state of war exists . Rossiter wrote at the end of our last declared war , at a time when the country , of course , was fully committed . In the fifty - three years since , the country has engaged in at ...
... ment are not realistic — when a state of war exists . Rossiter wrote at the end of our last declared war , at a time when the country , of course , was fully committed . In the fifty - three years since , the country has engaged in at ...
Page xii
... ment of special crisis institutions will work changes in the permanent structure of government and society : " No constitutional government ever passed through a period in which emergency powers were used without undergoing some degree ...
... ment of special crisis institutions will work changes in the permanent structure of government and society : " No constitutional government ever passed through a period in which emergency powers were used without undergoing some degree ...
Page xix
... ment , and has been used at all times , in all free countries , and by all free men . My decision to devote this survey to four large modern democracies and no smaller ones was rather arbitrary . This I am frank to admit , and I wish ...
... ment , and has been used at all times , in all free countries , and by all free men . My decision to devote this survey to four large modern democracies and no smaller ones was rather arbitrary . This I am frank to admit , and I wish ...
Page 4
... ment , esp . in a republic . " Indeed , the qualifying adjective constitutional is almost redundant , for the historical conception of dictatorship was that it could not be other than constitutional . The original dictatorship , that of ...
... ment , esp . in a republic . " Indeed , the qualifying adjective constitutional is almost redundant , for the historical conception of dictatorship was that it could not be other than constitutional . The original dictatorship , that of ...
Page 7
... ment are parceled out among a number of mutually independent offices and institutions ; the power to exercise those functions is circumscribed by well - established laws , customs , and constitutional prescriptions ; and the people for ...
... ment are parceled out among a number of mutually independent offices and institutions ; the power to exercise those functions is circumscribed by well - established laws , customs , and constitutional prescriptions ; and the people for ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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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