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Can the Legal Machinery of Emergency Become Permanent? - Indira Gandhi and the Normalization of Executive Power | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of us imagine a constitution as a machine built to limit power, complete with a safety valve designed to allow temporary flexibility during a severe crisis. The assumption is straightforward: when the danger passes, the valve closes, and normal operations resume. But what happens when the language of emergency is used not to preserve the constitutional order, but to transform it legally from the inside out?
This episode examines that question through the state of emergency declared in…
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