Democracy Under Total War
Issacharoff, Samuel
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Verfassungsblog
2022-05-05
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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.
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Issacharoff, Samuel
Comparative Constitutionalism
emergency powers
Parliaments
Ukrainian War
War
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