"prerogative state" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: prerogative states [plural]
Etymology: Coined by German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel in his book The Dual State (1941). The "dual state", originally referring to Nazi Germany, was made up of the normative state and the prerogative state. Head templates: {{en-noun}} prerogative state (plural prerogative states)
  1. A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.
    Sense id: en-prerogative_state-en-noun-xF0cn~Ds Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Post-communist development in Russia has been characterized by the development of a dual state in which the constitutional order is balanced by the consolidation of an arbitrary prerogative state.",
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          "text": "As neo-authoritarianism advances, the [Chinese Communist] Party moves to the front stage and becomes hands-on in managing important affairs, crowding out legal rules and institutions. It has expanded and solidified a prerogative state to solve politically sensitive matters through substantively extra-legal methods.",
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