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Pretty good article. I think the authors could have gone further at the end in criticizing the implications of the Posner/Vermeule position.
Also, I was kinda shocked not to see any mention of this guy:
Pretty good article. I think the authors could have gone further at the end in criticizing the implications of the Posner/Vermeule position.
Also, I was kinda shocked not to see any mention of this guy:
Interesting article. Political trends in the US do seem to favor decisionism over cons utional republicanism (in Schmittian terms, "political romanticism.")
"The sovereign decides the state of the exception."Also, I was kinda shocked not to see any mention of this guy:
That was insurrection among the states, when American nationalism was still in its cradle.
By comparison, 9/11 was not even a pinprick. Not a threat to the regular cons utional order or the nation really, except in our own overreaction to it.
Last edited by Winehole23; 05-13-2011 at 03:36 AM. Reason: or the nation, really
How many more fake emergencies will radical, opportunistic deciders find?
Last edited by Winehole23; 05-13-2011 at 03:28 AM.
In principle there's no rational limit, assuming unlimited time.
...and human fallibility, enhanced by the mob mind.
Yet republics, like men, are all mortal...In principle there's no rational limit, assuming unlimited time.
Lincoln would have brought gas to 3 a gallon
we gonna arrest erybody
you then. you ain't arrestin me. ;-)
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