He put it all on the line to make the "Passion" - I'd like to see Dubya put it all on the line and rescind the "Emergency War Powers Act" and restore the common law status of the Constitution, something that only one President has attempted since FDR started the nightmare in 1932. In this nation we have what is known as a Constitutional Republic.
In that Constitutional Republic, Presidents are not Kings and do not get to repeal laws passed by a legislature elected by the people of the United States.
"In that Constitutional Republic, Presidents are not Kings and do not get to repeal laws passed by a legislature elected by the people of the United States."
Actually, I mistakenly called "Emergency War Powers" an Act...it was no such thing.
It actually was an unconstitutional act of FDR, using Lincoln's precedent.
Read this website (from the congressional record) and get a bit of education...
http://www.rallye-pointe.com/em_powers.htm "EMERGENCY POWERS STATUTES:"
"PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL LAW NOW IN EFFECT DELEGATING TO THE EXECUTIVE EXTRAORDINARY AUTHORITY IN TIME OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY UNITED STATES SENATE NOVEMBER 19, 1973"
"Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971."
It takes a President to rescind these "dictatorial" powers, and JFK was the only President that talked about doing it.
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