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noun
A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government
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History
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.
