States of exception in American history /
"Americans take great pride in their respect for the rule of law and our Constitution. And yet too frequently specific legal rights and procedures protected by the Constitution have been suspended on the grounds of emergency, and we have tolerated the longer exclusion of groups such as African-...
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Chicago :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: The challenge of Carl Schmitt. What Is the state of exception? / Nomi Claire Lazar
- Negotiating the rule of law : dilemmas of security and liberty revisited / Ewa Atanassow and Ira Katznelson
- Beyond the exception / David Dyzenhaus
- Part 2: The American experience with emergency powers. The American law of overruling necessity : the exceptional origins of state police power / William J. Novak
- To save the country : treason and necessity in constitutional emergencies / John Fabian Witt
- Powers of war in times of peace : emergency powers in the United States after the end of the Civil War / Gregory P. Downs
- Was there an American concept of emergency powers? John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, and the democratic politics of exception / Stephen W. Sawyer
- Charles Merriam and the search for democratic power after sovereignty / James T. Sparrow
- Constitutional dictatorship in twentieth-century American political thought / Joel Isaac
- Part 3: Broadening the exception. Frederick Douglass and constitutional emergency : an homage to the political creativity of abolitionist activism / Mariah Zeisberg
- Delegated governance as a structure of exceptions / Elisabeth S. Clemens
- Spaces of exception in American history / Gary Gerstle and Desmond King.