Translator's Preface

Identifying or Exploiting the Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy? An Introduction to Carl Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy

JOHN P. McCORMICK

Legality and Legitimacy

Introduction: The Legislative State System of Legality Corn-pared to Other State Types (Jurisdiction, Governmental, and Administrative Staten

I The System of Legality of the Parliamentary Legislative State

1. The Legislative State and the Concept of Law

2. Legality and the Equal Chance for Achieving Political Power

II The Three Extraordinary Lawgivers of the Weimar Constitution

3. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Materiae: The Second Principal Part of the Weimar Constitution as a Second Constitution

4. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Supremitatis: Actual Meaning-Plebiscitary Legitimacy instead of Legislative State Legality

5. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Necessitates: Actual Meaning-The Administrative State Measure Displaces the Parliamentary Legislative State Statute

Conclusion

Afterword (1958)

Appendix: Selected Articles of the Weimar Constitution

Notes

Works Cited by Carl Schmitt in Legality and Legitimacy

Index