States of exception in American history / edited by Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac.
2020
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Title
States of exception in American history / edited by Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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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.
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.
Summary
States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the polity. In the United States, derogations from the rule of law seem to have been a feature of--not a bug in--the constitutional system. The first comprehensive account of the politics of exceptions and emergencies in the history of the United States, this book weaves together historical studies of moments and spaces of exception with conceptual analyses of emergency, the state of exception, sovereignty, and dictatorship. The Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Cold War figure prominently in the essays; so do Francis Lieber, Frederick Douglass, John Dewey, Clinton Rossiter, and others who explored whether it was possible for the United States to survive states of emergency without losing its democratic way. States of Exception combines political theory and the history of political thought with histories of race and political institutions. It is both inspired by and illuminating of the American experience with constitutional rule in the age of terror and Trump.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN
9780226712468 (electronic book)
022671246X (electronic book)
9780226712291
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9780226712321
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022671246X (electronic book)
9780226712291
022671229X
9780226712321
022671232X
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