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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

History and Concepts of Emergency

Giacomo Delledonne

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
August 2023

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 18 March 2025

Subject(s):
National emergency — Coup d'état — State of emergency — National security

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 According to standard accounts of constitutionalism, a constitutional framework, specifying the allocation of powers and competences among the several branches of government and procedural and substantial guarantees for the protection of fundamental rights, is designed to provide stability. When ‘national emergency’ arises, the very same constitutional framework may be subject to ad hoc, temporary derogations, aiming to cope with (and to resolve) the emergency situation (see also types and effects of emergency). Under ‘rigid’ constitutional systems (rigid...
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