The Police Power
Patriarchy And The Foundations Of American Government
by Markus Dirk Dubber and Markus D Dubber
"Mention the phrase "Homeland Security" and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. However, even before its recent growth, the power to police had represented a vast expansion of legislative and regulative power at all levels of U.S. governance, from the federal government down to the smallest municipalities.
Dubber explores the roots of the power to police - the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers - by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law. He argues that the primary characteristics of this power, including the inability to accurately define it, reflect its origins in the discretionary and virtually limitless patriarchal power of the householder over his household"--BOOK JACKET.
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Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government
2005, Columbia University Press
in English
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The Police Power: Patriarchy And The Foundations Of American Government
February 28, 2005, Columbia University Press
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in English
0231132069 9780231132060
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"Two basic modes of state governance can be traced throughout the history of Western political thought and practice."
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