Constitutional DictatorshipTransaction Publishers - 322 pages |
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... Congress , a remarkably candid account of certain extraordinary measures which he had been forced to adopt during the first feverish weeks of the Civil War . If he had been living in 1942 , he might have framed his question in more ...
... Congress , a remarkably candid account of certain extraordinary measures which he had been forced to adopt during the first feverish weeks of the Civil War . If he had been living in 1942 , he might have framed his question in more ...
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... institutions and powers . The first of these is war , particularly a war to repel invasion , when a state must convert its peacetime political and social order into a wartime fighting machine and overmatch the skill and efficiency of ...
... institutions and powers . The first of these is war , particularly a war to repel invasion , when a state must convert its peacetime political and social order into a wartime fighting machine and overmatch the skill and efficiency of ...
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... constitutional order , and the defense of the political and social liberties of the people . It is important to recognize the true and limited ends of any practical application of the principle of constitutional ... institutions ; the power ...
... constitutional order , and the defense of the political and social liberties of the people . It is important to recognize the true and limited ends of any practical application of the principle of constitutional ... institutions ; the power ...
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... institutions of freedom and constitutionalism . The wide gulf between constitutional and fascist dictatorship should need no demon- stration . Like the Grand Canyon , it is there for anyone to see . It was and is a difference of kind as ...
... institutions of freedom and constitutionalism . The wide gulf between constitutional and fascist dictatorship should need no demon- stration . Like the Grand Canyon , it is there for anyone to see . It was and is a difference of kind as ...
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... institution of constitutional dictatorship of an executive nature is martial rule ; in one form or another it has existed in all constitutional countries . Martial rule is an emergency device designed for use in the crises of invasion ...
... institution of constitutional dictatorship of an executive nature is martial rule ; in one form or another it has existed in all constitutional countries . Martial rule is an emergency device designed for use in the crises of invasion ...
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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