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States of exception in American history / edited by Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Chicago scholarship onlinePublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (344 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226712468
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 342.73062 23
LOC classification:
  • KF5060 .S73 2021
Online resources: This text 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. A 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.
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Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text 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. A 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.

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