Political Justice (eBook)

The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends

Otto Kirchheimer (Autor)

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2015
468 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7852-9 (ISBN)

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How have regimes used the agencies of criminal justice for their own purposes? What characterizes the linkage of politics and justice? Drawing on a wealth of foreign and domestic source material, Otto Kirchheimer examines systematically the structure of state protection, the nature of a strictly "political" trial, including the trial by fiat of the successor regime, and the forms of legal repression that states have used against political organizations. He analyzes the Nuremberg trials, the Communist purge trials, and a number of Smith Act trials. In two highly original chapters he also explores the political and judicial nature of asylum and clemency. This study of the uneasy balance between abstract justice and political expediency is a contribution to constitutional and criminal law, political science, and social psychology.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: abuse of power • amnesty law • attempt • Barenblatt v. United States • bribery • communism • Communist Party v. Subversive Activities Control Board • Communist propaganda • Consideration • Constitutionality • Contempt of Court • cover-up • Crime • Crime against peace • Criminal Law • Criticism • defamation • defendant • Demoralization (warfare) • Dennis v. United States • Diminished responsibility • Disbarment • Disenchantment • Dispensation (canon law) • Doctrine • Entrenched Clause • Eugene V. Debs • Ex post facto law • Extradition • Federal Constitutional Court • Fellow traveller • Foray • fraternization • Fraud • freedom of speech • George Lansbury • High crimes and misdemeanors • Impeachment • imperialism • Impracticability • impunity • influence peddling • Judicial Activism • Judicial interpretation • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jury • Law enforcement • lawyer • Legislation • Liberalism • Lon L. Fuller • My Opposition • Necessity • New Trial • Non-Interventionism • Outlaw • Pacifism • pardon • parliamentary immunity • Persecution • Police action • police state • political alienation • Political Crime • Political jurisprudence • political revolution • Politics • popular sovereignty • Precedent • Prerogative • presumption • Procedural law • Prosecutor • Reasonable Person • rebuttal • Reprisal • Return to normalcy • Reversible error • Right of asylum • right to counsel • Rule of Law • Schenck v. United States • secret police • Sedition • Self-Incrimination • show trial • Smith Act • Socialist Reich Party • Standing (law) • state crime • Statute • Subversion • Superiority (short story) • Tax evasion • Totalitarianism • Treason • war • War Crime • war of aggression
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7852-7 / 1400878527
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7852-9 / 9781400878529