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Outside the law : emergency and executive power
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- Creator
- Clement Fatovic
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- viii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801895272, 9780801893629, 0801893623, 0801895278
- OCLC
- ocn305390726, ocn592756394, ocn923195459
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "So many unexpected things" : contingency and character in modern political thought -- "Without the prescription of the law" : virtue and discretion in Locke's theory of prerogative -- "All was confusion and disorder" : regularity and character in Hume's political thought -- "The king can do no wrong" : Blackstone on the executive in law -- "It squints towards monarchy" : constitutional flexibility and the powers of the president -- A "patriotic and dignifying president" : republican virtue and the presidency -- Conclusion