On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:17:35AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:

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So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a "national emergency" right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain

At 07:33 AM 8/21/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: that. I

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mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty much gone anyway,

Hasn't there been a perpetual "National Emergency", signed by every president since WWII or therebouts?

Is Bush's a double plus National Emergency?

It has come to our attention that you citizens are being unsoc. Please turn on your telescreen (eg Fox News) and wait for the next minute of hate. Then call your local Fatherland Security Agency and wait for instructions. Repeat after me: "We have always been at war with Oceania bin Laden" War is peace. ------ In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. -James Madison (congress has not declared war since 1941)