States of Exception in American History
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Introduction
Part One: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt
1 What Is the State of Exception?
2 Negotiating the Rule of Law: Dilemmas of Security and Liberty Revisited
3 Beyond the Exception
Part Two: The American Experience with Emergency Powers
4 The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power
5 To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies
6 Powers of War in Times of Peace: Emergency Powers in the United States after the End of the Civil War
7 Was There an American Concept of Emergency Powers? John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, and the Democratic Politics of Exception
8 Charles Merriam and the Search for Democratic Power After Sovereignty
9 Constitutional Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought
Part Three: Broadening the Exception
10 Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Emergency: An Homage to the Political Creativity of Abolitionist Activism
11 Delegated Governance as a Structure of Exceptions
12 Spaces of Exception in American History
Afterword
Contributors
Index
History: American History
Law and Legal Studies: The Constitution and the Courts
Political Science: American Government and Politics
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