The Police Power

Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

By: Markus Dirk Dubber

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Paperback | 7 September 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.

Dubber explores the roots of the power to police--the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers--by focusing on its most obvious and problematic manifestation: criminal law. He argues that the defining characteristics of this power, including the inability to accurately define it, reflect its origins in the discretionary and virtually limitless patriarchal power of the householder over his household. The paradox of patriarchal police power as the most troubling yet least scrutinized of governmental powers can begin to be resolved by subjecting this branch of government to the critical analysis it merits. Dubber shows us that the question must become how can the police power and criminal law together serve the goals of social equity that define and give direction to contemporary democratic societies? This book goes to the heart of this neglected but crucial topic.

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An ambitious new work of political science...His historical model is already raising interest amongst theorists of crime and policing in Britain. -- T. Endicott, J. Getzler & E. Peel Properties of Law: Essays in Honor of James W. Harris This book is useful for at least two reasons: 1) It places in historical perspective some aspects of 20th century criminal law that are difficult to understand otherwise; 2) It helps explain the relative inattention to limits on the criminal law. -- Jack E. Call Law and Politics Book Review The volume begins with a fascinating discussion of household governance in old Rome... Dubber places 20th-century criminal law in historical perspective and examines the relationship between police power and patriarchy... Recommended. Choice Dubber covers it all. -- Arthur L. Rizer III Federal Lawyer The Police Power is a deeply penetrating appraisal of the historical expression and significance of the concept of police. -- Christopher Tomlins Buffalo Law Review This is a fascinating book -- provocative and demanding. -- Michael Willrich The American Historical Review

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: "The Power to Govern Men and Things"	p. xi
From Household Governance to Political Economy
Police as Patria Potestas	p. 3
Blackstone's Police	p. 47
Continental Police Science	p. 63
American Police Power
Policing the New Republic	p. 81
Definition by Exclusion	p. 120
Police Power and Commerce Power	p. 139
Police, Law, Criminal Law
The Forgotten Power and the Problem of Legitimation	p. 157
The Law of Police: Internal and External Constraints	p. 180
Lochner's Law and Substantive Due Process	p. 190
Conclusion: Toward a Critical Analysis of Police and Punishment	p. 211
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 259
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