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States of Exception in American History (Hardcover)
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States of Exception in American History (Hardcover)
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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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