From constitutional technique to caesarist ploy: Carl schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism, and emergency powers

Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 197-220

  McCormick, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy, trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov, 1, 34 (Chicago, 1996), 73-75.
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17. hereafter DII; Der Huter der Verfassung (Tubingen, 1931), hereafter HV.
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26. Maus, B u¨rgerliche Rechtstheorie und Faschismus, 109, 126; on the constitutionally abrogating ramifications of his political economy.
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28. McCormick, Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism, 194, 229-44, 279-80.
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34. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist Papers (New York, 1961).
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36. Manin XX “Checks, Balances, and Boundaries,” 41.
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41. Bruce Ackerman We the People 2: Transformations (Cambridge, 1998), hereafter WTP1 or WTP2.
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43. Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.
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