The Law of State Succession
The Law of State Succession

Author: D. P. O' Connell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1107594693

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First published in 1956, this book presents an account regarding the legal principles governing the consequences of changes of sovereignty, focusing particularly on British practice during the preceding 150 years. The legal principles governing British practice are compared with those of other states in order to record the main points of doctrinal agreement or divergence.

Constitutional Dictatorship
Constitutional Dictatorship

Author: Clinton Rossiter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1351526391

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How should the United States be governed during times of crisis? Definitely not as we are in times of tranquility, asserts this classic study. The war on terrorism is a case in point. The horrors of terror attacks on the United States have forced Americans to accept legislative changes that might be unthinkable at other times. The "inescapable truth," Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis, is that "No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake."