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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (1018)7/13/2003 9:39:23 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
Note: The Constituion was suspended on March 9th 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosecelt declared a state of national emergency and was granted a broad range of executive powers by congress to deal with the Great Depression under the War Powers Act of 1917. No president since then has ordered a proclamation ending the the national emergency. It still exists and the Constiution remains suspended, when national emergencies or wars are declared, allowing presidential executive powers to go unchecked. This also means that the president can declare a national emergency and order martial law at anytime!
That's what that site says.

No president since then has ordered a proclamation ending the the national emergency.
I suppose that's correct. No president did it. Congress did it.

It still exists and the Constiution remains suspended, when national emergencies or wars are declared, allowing presidential executive powers to go unchecked.
And that, if it ever was correct, no longer is by that act of Congress.

But would you care to produce the executive order "suspending the Constitution"? I know something of the history of that time and I know of know of no such action by FDR. It is doubtful such an order would be upheld by the USSC if challenged. The only emergency power granted the President in the Constitution is suspension of habeas corpus (which Lincoln did at the outbreak of the Civil War).

Why hasn't Bush done it? Maybe it's not the plan to do it now. Maybe they are not ready. But it's there for when they are ready and whoever is President at the time can suspend the constitution and declare martial law.
Let's see that EO.
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