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Page xii
... significance in America's War on Terrorism since the crisis , we are told , will last indefinitely . It will not be ... significant what Rossiter called the " final danger " —that the government by default , rather than design , may ...
... significance in America's War on Terrorism since the crisis , we are told , will last indefinitely . It will not be ... significant what Rossiter called the " final danger " —that the government by default , rather than design , may ...
Page xvi
... significant in both the quality of his judgment and his devotion to democracy . " The emergency powers are , " as Rossiter said , " political and social dynamite . " Congress is as- signed the duty to assure that the dictator acts ...
... significant in both the quality of his judgment and his devotion to democracy . " The emergency powers are , " as Rossiter said , " political and social dynamite . " Congress is as- signed the duty to assure that the dictator acts ...
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... significant results than the democracies of the twentieth century . Constitutional dictatorship is a rag - bag phrase , and into it can be tossed all sorts of different institutions and procedures of emergency government . Just what ...
... significant results than the democracies of the twentieth century . Constitutional dictatorship is a rag - bag phrase , and into it can be tossed all sorts of different institutions and procedures of emergency government . Just what ...
Page 13
... reached the peak of its significance . Men are just as willing today as they were in ancient Rome 9 Of Civil Government , II , chap . 14 , sec . 160 . to renounce their freedom for a little while in order. 13 CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP.
... reached the peak of its significance . Men are just as willing today as they were in ancient Rome 9 Of Civil Government , II , chap . 14 , sec . 160 . to renounce their freedom for a little while in order. 13 CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP.
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... significance . For this reason the Roman dictatorship invokes the attention of all free men . As a matter of fact , the history of almost all nations of antiquity presents instances of the concept and practice of constitutional dictator ...
... significance . For this reason the Roman dictatorship invokes the attention of all free men . As a matter of fact , the history of almost all nations of antiquity presents instances of the concept and practice of constitutional dictator ...
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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