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The Constitution of Tyranny
Brian Loveman
其他書名
Regimes of Exception in Spanish America
出版University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN08229553699780822955368
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-GgNAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Loveman systematically analyzes constitutional change in sixteen countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to demonstrate how the military dictatorships and human rights violations of recent decades are linked to political developments in nineteenth-century Europe and the New World. His provocative thesis, based on extensive original research, highlights the enduring tension between liberty and order in Spanish America, the emergence of the armed forces as a major political force, and the legal bases for press censorship, political oppression, and state terrorism. In the name of popular sovereignty and defense of order, governments sought to legitimize barbaric repression of adversaries, to justify slavery, slaughter, and mayhem. Constitutions were also useful in sanctifying intolerance. Formal acceptance of democracy belied refusal by incumbent governments to tolerate political opposition and effective exercise of civil rights and liberties.