01170     2200205   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036007000300056008003900059082001000098100002200108245009900130250001600229260003300245300000900278500007500287650003900362084001600401520054700417INLIS00000000000994920210823122416  a0010-0821000003ta210823                |          | |    a321.80 aRossiter, Clinton1 aConstitutional dictatorship :bcrisis government in the modern democracies /cClinton Rossiter  a1st Edition  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2017  a330p  a<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315080536">e-book</a> 4aPolitics & International Relations  a321.8 ROS c  aHow should the United States be governed during times of crisis? Definitely not as we are in times of tranquility, asserts this classic study. The war on terrorism is a case in point. The horrors of terror attacks on the United States have forced Americans to accept legislative changes that might be unthinkable at other times. The "inescapable truth," Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis, is that "No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake."