Legality and Legitimacy
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"Legality and Legitimacy" is a 1932 political and legal treatise by Carl Schmitt that critiques liberal parliamentary democracy by distinguishing between mere legal validity and deeper political legitimacy in the modern state.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Legality and Legitimacy canonical | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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legal treatise ⓘ |
| addresses | crisis of parliamentary democracy ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Weimar constitutional crisis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Carl Schmitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concerns |
foundations of state authority
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limits of constitutionalism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticizes |
normativism in legal theory
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parliamentary law-making procedures ⓘ |
| critiques |
liberal parliamentary democracy
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rule of law formalism ⓘ |
| distinguishesBetween | legal validity and political legitimacy ⓘ |
| examines |
foundations of democratic legitimacy
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relationship between legality and sovereignty ⓘ |
| field |
constitutional law
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jurisprudence ⓘ political theory ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
legal philosophy
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political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorProfession |
jurist
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political theorist ⓘ |
| hasForm | essay collection ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late Weimar crisis ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century political theory
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debates on constitutional dictatorship ⓘ legal theory of emergency powers ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
decisionism
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exception ⓘ guardian of the constitution ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
constitutional theory
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legality ⓘ legitimacy ⓘ liberal democracy ⓘ parliamentarism ⓘ sovereignty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| philosophicalPerspective |
anti-liberal
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authoritarian ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | continental political philosophy ⓘ |
| proposes | priority of political decision over legal norm ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Political Theology
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The Concept of the Political NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
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