Martial law was imposed on Taiwan in 1949 with the temporary war provisions and, at the same time, the Constitution was suspended (Hsiao and Hsiao, 2001: 4). Next came a ban on the establishment of new political parties, which gave the secret police broad powers to arrest anyone expressing criticism of government policies (International Committee for Human Rights in Taiwan, 1987: 3). As a result, the liberalization process was long overdue. The main aspiration of Kuomintang (KMT) officials in enacting martial law was that Taiwan would become the bastion of the future recovery of the People's Republic of Mainland China (Chao and Myers, 2000). : 387). If the communist regime were to ever lose support and collapse, the Republic of China (ROC) party would reestablish its governance on the Chinese mainland. Therefore, the new government's immediate concern was to prevent communist subversion and Taiwanese nationalism from undermining the Republic of China's governance over Taiwan Province (ibid.). In order to achieve these goals, the government of the Republic of China and the ruling KMT suspended all activities that could have weakened their authority by postponing civil liberties, for example equality between the political and social spheres, the right to life corrupted by martial law, freedom of expression prohibited. and the right of assembly is prohibited (Suomen Vartioliikkeitten Liitto ry, 2008: 61). This they did as early as May 19, 1949, when Taiwan Governor Chen Cheng imposed martial law and began establishing legal and bureaucratic criticism or threat to public order in cases of sedition (Chao and Myers, 2000: 387-388). Under the law, individuals would be charged in a military court and, if found guilty, either imprisoned or... middle of paper ......rk reconstructs the context of the state of exception. During martial law, the state of exception was used indirectly in the Taiwanese social sphere through foreign policy which created a fragmentation of the political sphere and the social sphere. This weakened Taiwanese society by moving the social sphere towards the zone of exception. Same with the National Security Law, except that it directly affected civilians by limiting their rights by transferring them to the exception zone where they were considered neither legally nor politically. Accordingly, this situation could be understood, as Diamond (2011: 21) posits, that democracy is lost as the level of freedom decreases due to poor governance, as this does not grant civil rights in its own right, but keeps civilians in society. the sphere of exception in the event of public resistance.