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The State of emergency (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an escape from every legal consideration. It is still a state represented by order (rather than chaos or anarchy) but it is not a legal order.

The State of emergency (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an exceptional moment in political life (as opposed to some stable normalcy) but is increasingly the predominant form of the life of modern nations.

The State of emergency (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠situated at an ambiguous and uncertain fringe at the intersection of the legal and the political and constitutes a point of disequilibrium between public law and political fact.

The State of emergency (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the suspension of the legal order in its totality as an immediate response to unforeseen events imposed in order to return things to a state normalcy.

A State of emergency (n.) protracted ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠has become the State itself — one in which the claims of citizenship are more or less permanently suspended.

A State of emergency (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠once a provisional measure; now it is a normal technique of rule, even for states that call themselves democratic.