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How should the United States be governed during times of crisis? Definitely not as we are in times of tranquility, asserts this classic study. The war on terrorism is a case in point. The horrors of terror attacks on the United States have forced Americans to accept legislative changes that might be unthinkable at other times. The "e;inescapable truth,"e; Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis, is that "e;No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake."e;
How should the United States be governed during times of crisis? Definitely not as we are in times of tranquility, asserts this classic study. The war on terrorism is a case in point. The horrors of terror attacks on the United States have forced Americans to accept legislative changes that might be unthinkable at other times. The "e;inescapable truth,"e; Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis, is that "e;No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake."e;