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1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages) |
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1. Legality and Legitimacy: Refractions from Weimar -- 1.1. States of Emergency -- 1.2. Weimar: a Short Introduction -- 1.3. The Coup d'Etat of 20 July 1932 -- 1.4. Article 48 and the Court's Decision -- 2. Friend and Enemy: Schmitt and the Politics of Law -- 2.1. The Sovereignty of Decision -- 2.2. Law as the People's Will -- 2.3. Liberalism, Parliamentarianism, and Legal Positivism -- 2.4. The Guardian of the Constitution? -- 2.5. Liberalism's Horizon -- 2.6. Anti-Semitism and Apology -- 3. The Pure Theory in Practice: Kelsen's Science of Law -- 3.1. Kelsen's Critique of Schmitt -- 3.2. Kelsen on Article 48 -- 3.3. God, State, and Democracy -- 3.4. The Principle of Legality -- 3.5. The Inner Heterogeneity of Kelsen's Thought -- 4. The Legitimacy of Legal Order: Heller's Legal Theory -- 4.1. The Crisis of State Theory -- 4.2. Culture, Society and State -- 4.3. The Legitimacy of the State and Law -- 4.4. Democracy and Homogeneity -- 4.5. Law as the Sovereign Expression of the People's Will -- 4.6. The Concept of Constitutional Statute -- 4.7. The Individual Legal Conscience -- 4.8. The Idea of Legal Order -- 5. Lessons from Weimar: The Legitimacy of Legality -- 5.1. Schmitt and Rawls on Justification -- 5.2. Habermas on the Democratic Form of Law -- 5.3. Hermann Heller and Contemporary Political and Legal Philosophy |
| Summary |
This text investigates one of the oldest questions of legal philosophy - the relationship between law and legitimacy. It analyses the legal theories of three public lawyers of the Weimar era, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller |
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Germany Politics and government 1918-1933 |
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Legitimacy of governments |
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Rule of law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index |
| Notes |
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Rule of law.
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Legitimacy of governments.
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Legitimacy of governments
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Politics and government
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Rule of law
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Legaliteitsbeginsel.
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Rechtsstaat.
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Legitimiteit.
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Weimar-republiek.
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Légitimité des gouvernements.
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Règle de droit.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054639
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Germany
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Allemagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1918-1933.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191685453 |
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0191685453 |
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