will trump rule by decree?

In the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and 1930s, the German constitution contained the controversial article 48, which granted the president the right to rule by decree in the case of a national emergency. ... Unknown to most Americans, a parallel legal regime allows the president to..

remembering the ludlow amendment

The Roosevelt letter to Congress that the Times referred to had said: “Such an amendment to the Constitution as that proposed would cripple any President in his conduct of our foreign relations, and it would encourage other nations to believe that they could violate American rights with..

john w. whitehead: beware the emergency state

Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, recent years, American presidents have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill.. ... These presidential powers, past, president and..

beware the emergency state

For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to secretive, vast misdirected complex of security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever America.. ..

the return of constitutional government?

The Legislative, Congress, writes the laws and appropriates funding Executive, the president, implements the laws with the funding provided and Judicial ensures that society adheres to the rights, principles and responsibilities enumerated in Constitution.. Unfortunately, for the last two years..

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