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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt (Gopal Balakrishnan)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Sovereign Diktator

Schmidt's analysis revolved around sixteenth century france, where the king claimed the right to suspend customary right in the execution of royal justice. The sovereign dictator does have such power. This had obvious applications to weimar. In the modern context, though, for schmidt, the sovereign dictatorship is not always illegitimate because the old structures have emploted. What was wrong for the king of france in the sixteenth century was right for the germans in 19 19.

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