Nonilex<p>Rather than completely eliminating the normative state, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazi</span></a> regime slowly created a parallel zone in which “unlimited arbitrariness &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>violence</span></a> unchecked by any legal guarantees” reigned freely. In this domain, which Fraenkel called the “prerogative state,” ordinary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>law</span></a> didn’t apply. (A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PrerogativePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PrerogativePower</span></a> is one that allows a person such as a monarch to act without regard to the laws on the books; theorists from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnLocke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JohnLocke</span></a> onward have offered various formulations of the idea.)</p>