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Dictatorship (Carl Schmitt)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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What Is Commissary Dictionary and What Is Sovereign Diction?

Dictatorship is not the mere suspension of the separation of powers, but rather a suspension with a concrete object. Schmidt concludes there are two types of dictatorship in the world. The commissary dictatorship derives from existing law and suspends the constitution to protect it. A sovereign dictatorship seeks to create conditions in which a constitution that it regards as the true one is made possible.

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