English Explanatory Dictionary

prerogative state

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.

Word forms

prerogative state prerogative states

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.

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