Sentence examples for decide on the exception from inspiring English sources
The absolutist sovereign did possess the sovereign power to decide on the exception, and was thus capable of authorizing commissars to use dictatorial methods in his name.
The commissarial dictators of the absolutist sovereign were mere agents of the sovereign and did not themselves possess the power to decide on the exception.
The revolutionary governments, like the absolutist sovereign, claimed the power to decide on the exception, but they did not claim to be sovereign.
Rather, they claimed to exercise the authority to decide on the exception in the name of the French people, even while they were ruling the French people by the use of dictatorial methods (D 132 47).
The absolutist sovereign, in turn, though he had the power to decide on the exception, was not himself a dictator; first of all since he did not decide under someone else's but by his own authority, and secondly because he was of course expected to rely on legal governance as his normal mode of operation (D 20 33).
"The sovereign is he who decides on the exception," said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation's leader can defy the law to serve the greater good.
His Political Theology, originally published in 1922, opens with the line, "sovereign is he who decides on the exceptions".
If the sovereign's decision on the exception is not subject to any material legal constraint, the power to decide on the state of exception is tantamount to the power to decide what should count as a state of exception (PT 13; Norris 2007).
The people of any nation will always want the right to control their own borders and decide on the direction of their culture, and England is no exception.
