The Emergency Constitution
By B. Ackerman. 2004
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Terrorist attacks will be a recurring part of our future. The balance of technology has shifted, making it possible for a small band of zealots to wreak devastation where we least expect it—not on a plane next time, but with poison gas in the subway or a biotoxin in the water supply. The attack of September 11 is the prototype for many events that will litter the twentyfirst century. We should be looking at it in a diagnostic spirit: What can we learn that will permit us to respond more intelligently the next time around? If the American reaction is any guide, we urgently require new constitutional concepts to deal with the protection of civil liberties. Otherwise, a downward cycle threatens: After each successful attack, politicians will come up with repressive laws and promise greater security—only to find that a different terrorist band manages to strike a few years later. This disaster, in turn, will create a demand for even more
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy
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- WHO decides on the exception? Securitization and emergency governance in global health (2014, background): “Nevertheless, the basic pillars of the constitution need to be protected and the legal order should therefore have mechanisms ready to keep an emergency within these constitutional confines (Ackermann, 2004; Gross, 2003: 1043–1044; Tushnet, 2005).”