Constitutional States of Emergency or Reshuffling Exception and Normalcy

Constitutional States of Emergency or Reshuffling Exception and Normalcy.

By shifting the relationship between normalcy and exception, the underlying dynamic between regular and exceptional constitutional regimes is finally turned upside down; the constitution(al function) remains formally in place but is set aside and replaced by a state of permanent institutional ambivalence.

Or, as one might say in Schmittian terms: Sovereignty finds its way back into our constitutional frameworks.