Constitutional DictatorshipTransaction Publishers - 322 pages |
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... necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people , or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " The man who posed that question was Abraham Lincoln . The date was July 4 , 1861 . The occasion was a message to Congress , a ...
... necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people , or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " The man who posed that question was Abraham Lincoln . The date was July 4 , 1861 . The occasion was a message to Congress , a ...
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... necessity of victory in an all - out war could have sanctioned : the Price Control Act , through which Congress handed over lawmaking power to the executive branch of the government ; the history - making " destroyer deal , " in which ...
... necessity of victory in an all - out war could have sanctioned : the Price Control Act , through which Congress handed over lawmaking power to the executive branch of the government ; the history - making " destroyer deal , " in which ...
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... necessity of conforming their own government more closely to the dictatorial pattern ! The wartime inadequacies of their constitutional government were remedied in most instances by an un- 1 William E. Rappard : The Crisis of Democracy ...
... necessity of conforming their own government more closely to the dictatorial pattern ! The wartime inadequacies of their constitutional government were remedied in most instances by an un- 1 William E. Rappard : The Crisis of Democracy ...
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... necessity of some degree of readjustment in the govern- mental structure and of contraction of the normal political and social liberties cannot be denied , particularly by a people faced with the grim horror of national enslavement ...
... necessity of some degree of readjustment in the govern- mental structure and of contraction of the normal political and social liberties cannot be denied , particularly by a people faced with the grim horror of national enslavement ...
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... necessity has to be mentioned at all . Actually this well - known doctrine is little better than a rationalization of extra - constitutional , illegal emergency action . The fact remains that there have been instances in the history of ...
... necessity has to be mentioned at all . Actually this well - known doctrine is little better than a rationalization of extra - constitutional , illegal emergency action . The fact remains that there have been instances in the history of ...
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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