Assertion: populace's leader | /r/CapableOf | claim emergency powers
Facets:
value: to achieve political ends
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Specifically, we refer to a state of exception when the law or the constitution is temporarily suspended during a time of crisis so that the executive leader can claim emergency powers.
text: As we noted above, a state of exception refers to a situation when the law or the constitution is temporarily suspended during a time of crisis so that the executive leader can claim emergency powers.
text: wherein citizens elect officials to represent their interests revolution a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the way of life, social structure, and political institutions of a society sovereign state system the system by which the world is divided up into separate and indivisible sovereign territories sovereignty the political form in which a single, central “sovereign” or supreme lawmaking authority governs within a clearly demarcated territory state a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory state of exception a condition of crisis in which the law or the constitution is temporarily suspended so that the executive leader can claim emergency powers terrorism the use of violence on civilian populations and institutions to achieve political ends totalitarian dictatorship an extremely oppressive form of dictatorship in which most aspects of citizens’ lives are controlled by the leader traditional authority power legitimized on the basis of long-standing customs war a violent armed conflict between politically distinct groups