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... National Stan- dard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Library of Congress Catalog Number ... emergency powers. 2. Democracy. I. Title. JF256 .R6 2002 321.8-dc21 2002070330 " Those republics which in time of danger ...
... National Stan- dard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Library of Congress Catalog Number ... emergency powers. 2. Democracy. I. Title. JF256 .R6 2002 321.8-dc21 2002070330 " Those republics which in time of danger ...
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... state of war exists . Rossiter wrote at the end of our last declared war , at a time when the ... emergency powers needed for that war were largely non - intrusive . The ... national crisis . Therefore , in time of crisis a democratic ...
... state of war exists . Rossiter wrote at the end of our last declared war , at a time when the ... emergency powers needed for that war were largely non - intrusive . The ... national crisis . Therefore , in time of crisis a democratic ...
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... emergency is open - ended . For example , " No government should initiate a ... emergencies have been for a well - defined purpose which could be accomplished ... national Constitution or laws , the President of the Reich may compel it to ...
... emergency is open - ended . For example , " No government should initiate a ... emergencies have been for a well - defined purpose which could be accomplished ... national Constitution or laws , the President of the Reich may compel it to ...
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... national emergency . It is written in frank recognition of a dangerous but inescapable truth : " No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake . " I can quote Lord Acton's dictum on ...
... national emergency . It is written in frank recognition of a dangerous but inescapable truth : " No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake . " I can quote Lord Acton's dictum on ...
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... national emergency can be strong enough to maintain its own existence without at the same time being so strong as to subvert the liberties of the people it has been instituted to defend . In support of that answer this book proposes to ...
... national emergency can be strong enough to maintain its own existence without at the same time being so strong as to subvert the liberties of the people it has been instituted to defend . In support of that answer this book proposes to ...
Contents
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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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