The State of Exception in an Emergency

Schmit: Popular sovereignty as the basis for rule is extremely dangerous because it can be used to justify any revolutionary action, including claims made by the so called dictatorship of the proletariat. How the legitimate german state could preserve itself was his concern. Such existential threats from within are a modern problem not faced in germany during the age of parliamentary democracy,. Though repeatedly faced in france during the nineteenth century, as in the june days of 18 forty eight, suppressed by the commissary dictator louis eugene cavenac.