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Legality and Legitimacy (Carl Schmitt)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Fatal Problem With Equal Chance

The key to Schmidt's thoughts on equal chance is his cogent analysis that majority rule, direct or indirect, only can ever work when an essential similarity among the entire people can be assumed. But such a situation most definitely did not hold in Weimar and probably never holds, except perhaps for brief times in small states, he says.

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