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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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
prerogative state
Today it means: A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees. Full definition →