Constitutional DictatorshipTransaction Publishers - 322 pages |
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Page xvii
... Constitutional Dictatorship and bid its dry bones . to live . No one could ... constitutional dictatorship " had been granted a secure place in the vocabulary ... democracy . It is exactly because I cherish our Western style of democracy ...
... Constitutional Dictatorship and bid its dry bones . to live . No one could ... constitutional dictatorship " had been granted a secure place in the vocabulary ... democracy . It is exactly because I cherish our Western style of democracy ...
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Clinton Rossiter. This has never been an easy world for constitutional democracy , and it is plainly becoming less easy with each passing year . The future of such democracy — the only kind of democracy so far as we are concerned — may ...
Clinton Rossiter. This has never been an easy world for constitutional democracy , and it is plainly becoming less easy with each passing year . The future of such democracy — the only kind of democracy so far as we are concerned — may ...
Page xix
... Constitution of that unhappy democracy contained the most forth- right provision for emergency dictatorship in modern constitutional history ; secondly , because in the final reckoning this provision con- tributed heavily to the ...
... Constitution of that unhappy democracy contained the most forth- right provision for emergency dictatorship in modern constitutional history ; secondly , because in the final reckoning this provision con- tributed heavily to the ...
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... constitutional states saw fit to employ in their various periods of national trial . The study will be partly historical ; it will record the actions of some of democracy's great crisis governments and will present the personalities who ...
... constitutional states saw fit to employ in their various periods of national trial . The study will be partly historical ; it will record the actions of some of democracy's great crisis governments and will present the personalities who ...
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... constitutional scheme . We have fought a successful total war , and we are still a democracy . What the ordinary citizen may not realize is that this more potent and less gentle government of his was pursuing in fact and theory a well ...
... constitutional scheme . We have fought a successful total war , and we are still a democracy . What the ordinary citizen may not realize is that this more potent and less gentle government of his was pursuing in fact and theory a well ...
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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