Clinton Rossiter (1917-1970) Cornell, A.B. 1939, Princeton, Ph.D., 1942, held Cornell's John L. Senior Chair in Government and was the author of numerous books, including The Supreme Court and the Commander-in-Chief (1951); Conservatism in America (1955); The American Presidency (1956); Marxism: The View from America (1960); and The American Quest 1790-1860 (1971).
William J. Quirk is professor of law at the School of Law of the University of South Carolina. His earlier work on this subject appeared in Society.
发表于2024-12-25
Constitutional Dictatorship 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
四点五星。 后浪这本书让我大开眼界,而这本书写于1948年更是让我吃惊。 正如卢梭所言,人们的第一要务,是确保国家不至灭亡,那么,独裁必然是面临危机的民主国家的唯一选择,而历史也证明了这一点,如何证明,那就请看书了。 让我惊讶的是,这简单朴素的道理似乎在法学院是不...
评分四点五星。 后浪这本书让我大开眼界,而这本书写于1948年更是让我吃惊。 正如卢梭所言,人们的第一要务,是确保国家不至灭亡,那么,独裁必然是面临危机的民主国家的唯一选择,而历史也证明了这一点,如何证明,那就请看书了。 让我惊讶的是,这简单朴素的道理似乎在法学院是不...
评分四点五星。 后浪这本书让我大开眼界,而这本书写于1948年更是让我吃惊。 正如卢梭所言,人们的第一要务,是确保国家不至灭亡,那么,独裁必然是面临危机的民主国家的唯一选择,而历史也证明了这一点,如何证明,那就请看书了。 让我惊讶的是,这简单朴素的道理似乎在法学院是不...
评分四点五星。 后浪这本书让我大开眼界,而这本书写于1948年更是让我吃惊。 正如卢梭所言,人们的第一要务,是确保国家不至灭亡,那么,独裁必然是面临危机的民主国家的唯一选择,而历史也证明了这一点,如何证明,那就请看书了。 让我惊讶的是,这简单朴素的道理似乎在法学院是不...
评分四点五星。 后浪这本书让我大开眼界,而这本书写于1948年更是让我吃惊。 正如卢梭所言,人们的第一要务,是确保国家不至灭亡,那么,独裁必然是面临危机的民主国家的唯一选择,而历史也证明了这一点,如何证明,那就请看书了。 让我惊讶的是,这简单朴素的道理似乎在法学院是不...
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How should the United States be governed during times of crisis? Definitely not as we are in times of tranquility, asserts this classic study. The war on terrorism is a case in point. The horrors of terror attacks on the United States have forced Americans to accept legislative changes that might be unthinkable at other times. The "inescapable truth," Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis, is that "No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake."
In an insightful introduction, William Quirk places Rossiter's work in the context of the new century and the current war on terrorism. Constitutional Dictatorship examines the experiences with emergency government of four large modern democracies-the United States, Great Britain, France, and the German Republic of 1919-1933-to see what unusual powers and procedures these constitutional states employed in their various periods of national trial.
Rossiter's concept of a "constitutional dictatorship" may be more shocking today than when he wrote the book. Based on a thoroughgoing study of the use of emergency powers in modern democracies, he determined that the facts of history demonstrate that there are occasions when constitutional dictatorship has served as an indispensable factor in maintaining constitutional democracy. Supreme Court doctrine does not recognize any implied presidential power to suspend the Constitution. However, Rossiter believes this view to be inaccurate. He defends his view through analysis of presidential action during the Civil War, World I, the Depression, and World War II, arguing that when the normal rules are not sufficient other rules take hold.
Rossiter proposed specific criteria by which to judge the worth and propriety of any resort to constitutional dictatorship. He provides a clear roadmap for both citizen and Congress to judge an executive's actions. In his introduction, Quirk notes that Rossiter's concept-the rapid return to normal government when the crisis is concluded-rests on a premise that appears to be missing today. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in politics, constitutional law, and American history.
Constitutional Dictatorship 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书