Anna Kronlund, MA
Doctoral Student
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of Jyväskylä
E-mail: anna.kronlund@jyu.fi
Postal address :
P.O. Box 35 (Ylistönmäentie 33)
FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä
h.3. Research interests
The rhetoric of the exception in the U.S. political discussions after the II World War
My doctoral thesis examines the rhetoric of the exception in the U.S. Congress debates after the Second World War with the special reference to the debates of the Article 48 of the Weimar Republic’s 1919 Constitution. I examine selected debates of the U.S. Congress which serve as primary material for my thesis. The emphasis lies in studying the theory of state of exception in the U.S. constitutional politics through the relationship of the powers between the executive and the legislative. The study focuses on the problematic of how to prepare for exceptional situations without shifting the powers from the legislative to the executive. Furthermore, the focus is on the question of how different kinds of constitutional systems, presidential and parliamentary, deal with the idea of emergency powers. The cases of USA and the Weimar are different but include the same thematic. Both constitutions have approaches toward emergency powers. It provides an interesting angle for studying the Constitution of the Weimar Republic in relation to the U.S. constitutional politics.