nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220506-062127-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220505s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220506-062127-0 doi eng 342 23 Issacharoff, Samuel Author aut Democracy Under Total War Issacharoff, Samuel Verfassungsblog 2022-05-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Ukraine is engaged in an existential war for survival. One need not accept the full role of the exception from Carl Schmitt to acknowledge that the struggle to withstand a brutal assault on civilians transcends all other issues. Ukrainian constitutional law recognizes the need for exceptional powers during a state of emergency, as does every other constitutional order whether expressly or tacitly. Necessarily, a war for survival shifts authority from parliament to the executive and many of the founding principles of democracy may be suspended during the emergency, even such defining features of democracy as popular selection of the government. CC BY-SA 4.0 Comparative Constitutionalism emergency powers Parliaments Ukrainian War War Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/democracy-under-total-war/ raw object