States of exception in American history. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac.
• Editors: Gerstle, Gary, 1954-; Isaac, Joel, 1978-
• Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac Part One: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt 1 What Is the State of Exception? Nomi Claire Lazar 2 Negotiating the Rule of Law: Dilemmas of Security and Liberty Revisited Ewa Atanassow and Ira Katznelson 3 Beyond the Exception David Dyzenhaus Part Two: The American Experience with Emergency Powers 4 The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power William J. Novak 5 To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies John Fabian Witt 6 Powers of War in Times of Peace: Emergency Powers in the United States after the End of the Civil War Gregory P. Downs 7 Was There an American Concept of Emergency Powers? John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, and the Democratic Politics of Exception Stephen W. Sawyer 8 Charles Merriam and the Search for Democratic Power After Sovereignty James T. Sparrow 9 Constitutional Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought Joel Isaac Part Three: Broadening the Exception 10 Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Emergency: An Homage to the Political Creativity of Abolitionist Activism Mariah Zeisberg 11 Delegated Governance as a Structure of Exceptions Elisabeth S. Clemens 12 Spaces of Exception in American History Gary Gerstle and Desmond King Afterword Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac Contributors Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 342.73062; War and emergency powers -- United States -- History; Crises -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226712468
• Related ISBNs: 9780226712291; 9780226712321
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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