Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt
6. 1. What Is the State of Exception? 17
7. 2. Negotiating the Rule of Law: Dilemmas of Security and Liberty Revisited 39
8. 3. Beyond the Exception 68
9. Part Two: The American Experience with Emergency Powers
10. 4. The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of State Police Power 95
11. 5. To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies 123
12. 6. Powers of War in Times of Peace: Emergency Powers in the United States after the End of the Civil War 154
13. 7. Was There an American Concept of Emergency Powers? John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, and the Democratic Politics of Exception 178
14. 8. Charles Merriam and the Search for Democratic Power After Sovereignty 199
15. 9. Constitutional Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought 225
16. Part Three: Broadening the Exception
17. 10. Frederick Douglass and Constitutional Emergency: An Homage to the Political Creativity of Abolitionist Activism 257
18. 11. Delegated Governance as a Structure of Exceptions 288
19. 12. Spaces of Exception in American History 313
20. Afterword 341
21. Contributors 349
22. Index 353