Translator's Preface ix
Identifying or Exploiting the Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy? An Introduction to Carl Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy
by John P. McCormick xiii
Introduction: The Legislative State System of Legality Compared to Other State Types (Jurisdiction, Governmental, and Administrative States) 3
I The System of Legality of the Parliamentary Legislative State
1. The Legislative State and the Concept of Law 17
2. Legality and the Equal Chance for Achieving Political Power 27
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 39
4. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Supremitatis: Actual Meaning--Plebiscitary Legitimacy instead of Legislative State Legality 59
5. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Necessitatis: Actual Meaning--The Administrative State Measure Displaces the Parliamentary Legislative State Statute 67
Conclusion 85
Afterword (1958) 95
Appendix Selected Articles of the Weimar Constitution 103
Notes 109
Works Cited by Carl Schmitt in Legality and Legitimacy 161
Index 165