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名詞

state of exception (複数形 states of exception)

1. (law, philosophy) A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.
   • 2006, Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism, page 127:

     Out of such rhetoric emerged an American state of exception, and with it, the disturbing outlines of inquisitorial behavior.

   • 2010, Flora Sapio, Sovereign Power and the Law in China, page 252:

     Regardless of how we conceive of them, rights are just abstract entitlements that, given a state of exception, can be suspended at will by the very same states that profess a belief in the universality and inalienability of these rights!

   • 2017, Martin J. Murray, The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century, page 311:

     The progressive normalization of the state of exception has eroded rule-bound procedures that give substance to conventional regulatory regimes.

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