The Deep State Dark Power and the Exception

Throughout the history of liberalism there has been a contradiction between the liberal ideal of public sovereignty under the rule of law and the dictates of security. this tension extends further back in western civilization as can be seen with Plato who could never neatly reconcile the rule oflaw versus the rule of the wise. like ancient Athens was domestically governed largely through various means of persuasion compromise and consent among parties deemed worthy when it came to expansion and dealing with political others coercion and top-down dark power prevailed by the 20th century state behavior had in theory been legally circumscribed but in practice raison d'état could justify exempting the state from legal restraint schmit's theory of the sovereign was meant to apply to