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BIBLIOGRAPHY A Bruce Ackerman (2004) ‘The  Emergency  Constitution’ 113 Yale  Law  Journal 1029 Philip Alston & James Crawford (Eds.) (2000) The Future of UN Human  Rights Treaty Monitoring (Cambridge: Cambridge UP) Chanaka Amaratunga (Ed.) (1990) Liberalism  in  Sri  Lanka  1981  –  1991:  A  Documentary  Record  (Colombo: Council for Liberal Democracy and Friedrich Naumann Stiftung) B Durga Das Basu (1982) Introduction to  the Constitution of India (9 th Ed.) (New Delhi: Prentice‐Hall) John Bell (1992) French Constitutional Law (Oxford: Oxford UP) Patrick Birkinshaw (2003) European  Public  Law (London: Butterworths) Charles L. Black, Jr., (1960) The People and the Court: Judicial Review  in a Democracy (New York: Macmillan) Robert Blackstone (1979) Commentaries  on  the  Laws  of  England  (1765) (Chicago: Chicago UP) Ineke BoereLijn (1995) ‘Towards  a  Strong  System  of  Supervision’ 17 Human Rights Quarterly 766 250
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A State of Permanent Crisis Constit
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This book is dedicated to J.S. Tiss
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3.   The Neo‐Roman Cons
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6. Fundamental Rights  ....
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security has been prioritised and t
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The year 2008 also marks the twenty
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nationalist political ideology (mir
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Needless to say, responsibility for
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those who believe in the democratic
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the exception discussed below. None
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independence or capacity to ensure
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einterpretation of its constitution
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issues from comparative experience
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PART I  The Theory and Practice
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In their recent comprehensive study
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in the process, destroy democracy.
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appointment of a dictator according
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dictator. 15 The dictator enjoyed a
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was the cultural and political etho
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siege is therefore a legal institut
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In Dicey’s view, the idea of mart
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diminish, the acknowledged prerogat
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Legislative Accommodation One of
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judges to resolve competing claims
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other vastly disparate contextual r
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than undermine, the rule of law in
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Carl  Schmitt:  Sovereign  Di
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Schmitt thought that, “…liberal
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The centrepiece of Schmitt’s mode
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exception has been declared by the
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CHAPTER III THE NEO‐ROMAN C
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3.1  Comparative  Experience:
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of emergency. It is true that the d
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emergency’. 87 The former remains
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legislation for the peace, order an
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the problem of deLinition plagues t
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to undertake, these jurisdictions m
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whereby each successive extension o
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may override ordinary statutes. As
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natural disasters, and a negative l
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However, the signiLicance of this p
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demonstrate this. 137 Other federat
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two classic constitutional devices
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may be curbed by the judiciary.”
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each department the necessary const
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normative expectations of the accom
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proved able, or indeed willing, to
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executive powers, and indeed tolera
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so clearly and blatantly transgress
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conLlict, but the character of the
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who use them to attack or undermine
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to the thoughts, feelings, and ener
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executive in favour of the latter,
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CHAPTER IV STANDARDS GOVERNING
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The past Live decades - the post Wo
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adaptation in human rights law of t
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interpreting these provisions. Subs
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interpreted this to mean “…a si
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were the result of an initiative by
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All three instruments contain a lis
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that it would “…take a State pa
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‘views’ are dependent on the at
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terms, but also that it provides fo
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incomplete reports. Perhaps unsurpr
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has also issued guidelines regardin
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advocacy role for its own views, wi
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The relevant State Party has an opp
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Nothing turns on the question wheth
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these rights. Derogation involves p
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ights under any circumstances, and
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population, to the territorial inte
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neither the ECHR nor the ACHR syste
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proclaimed a state of emergency. Th
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proportionate, in addition to confo
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elation to  the termination
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ut also the deeply conceptualised b
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Covenant (e.g., articles 6 and 7).
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Statute of the International Crimin
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derogability.  Even  in  time
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national security, and the protecti
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The Human Rights Committee has repe
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equires that States parties provide
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The only occasion in which the Huma
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would entail a breach of the State
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PART II  The Sri Lankan Experie
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CHAPTER V SRI  LANKA’S  CON
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emergency without having to look ov
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A state of emergency is brought int
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Chapter XVIII was predicated on the
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Regulations No. 1 of 2005 286 and E
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that of the person committing the a
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mens  rea  requirement for any
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extraordinary powers to the executi
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of almost every human rights norm 2
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question whether executive law‐ma
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merits as well as the statement of
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struck down a detention order after
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ecognised in Article 15 may be vali
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