Legality and Legitimacy : Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar Republic Book

1	Legality and Legitimacy: Refractions from Weimar	1
1.1	States of Emergency	6
1.2	Weimar: a Short Introduction	17
1.3	The Coup d'Etat of 20 July 1932	28
1.4	Article 48 and the Court's Decision	32
2	Friend and Enemy: Schmitt and the Politics of Law	38
2.1	The Sovereignty of Decision	42
2.2	Law as the People's Will	51
2.3	Liberalism, Parliamentarianism, and Legal Positivism	58
2.4	The Guardian of the Constitution?	70
2.5	Liberalism's Horizon	85
2.6	Anti-Semitism and Apology	98
3	The Pure Theory in Practice: Kelsen's Science of Law	102
3.1	Kelsen's Critique of Schmitt	108
3.2	Kelsen on Article 48	123
3.3	God, State, and Democracy	132
3.4	The Principle of Legality	149
3.5	The Inner Heterogeneity of Kelsen's Thought	157
4	The Legitimacy of Legal Order: Heller's Legal Theory	161
4.1	The Crisis of State Theory	167
4.2	Culture, Society and State	176
4.3	The Legitimacy of the State and Law	181
4.4	Democracy and Homogeneity	186
4.5	Law as the Sovereign Expression of the People's Will	194
4.6	The Concept of Constitutional Statute	200
4.7	The Individual Legal Conscience	210
4.8	The Idea of Legal Order	213
5	Lessons from Weimar: The Legitimacy of Legality	218
5.1	Schmitt and Rawls on Justification	219
5.2	Habermas on the Democratic Form of Law	235
5.3	Hermann Heller and Contemporary Political and Legal Philosophy	247