Legislative Responses against Extremism. The "Protection of Democracy" in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1920-1938)
Legislative Responses against Extremism. The "Protection of Democracy" in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1920-1938)

Summary/Abstract: How to deal with extremists has been one of the main problems of mass democracies, both historically, as many democracies had to cope with the emergence of totalitarian parties and movements, and in recent years, as new forms of political radicalism have emerged to challenge the stability of both old and new democratic regimes. Constitutional lawyers and political theorists have dealt variously with the difficult dilemma of the " tolerance for the intolerant " raised by the presence of radical political associations or parties in many democracies, in general taking some intermediary position between the two poles of " no freedom for the enemies of freedom" and " real freedom is freedom to dissent." [...]

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