Legality and legitimacy

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Title:

Legality and legitimacy

Author:

Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985.

ISBN:

9780822331612

9780822331742

Personal Author:

Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985.

Uniform Title:

Legalität und legitimität.

Publication Information:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

xliii, 166 s. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Link til indholdsfortegnelse: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003022709.html.

Contents:

The legislative state and the concept of law -- Legality and the equal chance for achieving political power -- The extraordinary lawgiver ratione materiae : the second principal part of the Weimar constitution as a second constitution -- The extraordinary lawgiver ratione supremitatis : actual meaning-plebiscitary legitimacy instead of legislative state legality -- The extraordinary lawgiver ratione necessitatis : actual meaning-the administrative state measure displaces the parliamentary legislative state statute.

Subject Term:

Legitimacy of governments -- Germany.

Legislative power -- Germany.

Rule of law -- Germany.

Added Author:

Seitzer, Jeffrey.

Copies:

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Summary

Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when they first appeared in Weimar Germany. Unavailable in English until now, Legality and Legitimacy was composed in 1932, in the midst of the crisis that would lead to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and only a matter of months before Schmitt's collaboration with the Nazis. In this important work, Schmitt questions the political viability of liberal constitutionalism, parliamentary government, and the rule of law. Liberal governments, he argues, cannot respond effectively to challenges by radical groups like the Nazis or Communists. Only a presidential regime subject to few, if any, practical limitations can ensure domestic security in a highly pluralistic society.

Legality and Legitimacy is sure to provide a compelling reference point in contemporary debates over the challenges facing constitutional democracies today. In addition to Jeffrey Seitzer's translation of the 1932 text itself, this volume contains his translation of Schmitt's 1958 commentary on the work, extensive explanatory notes, and an appendix including selected articles of the Weimar constitution. John P. McCormick's introduction places Legality and Legitimacy in its historical context, clarifies some of the intricacies of the argument, and ultimately contests Schmitt's claims regarding the inherent weakness of parliamentarism, constitutionalism, and the rule of law.