States of Exception in American History

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-71232-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Gary Gerstle is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge and the author of several books, including American Crucible and Liberty and Coercion. Joel Isaac is associate professor of social thought in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of In Working Knowledge and coeditor of The Worlds of American Intellectual History.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	1 line drawing
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-226-71232-X / 022671232X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-71232-1 / 9780226712321
Zustand	Neuware