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Still, have any of the Dem candidates said they would do any such thing? I would think that would be the last thing they would say, given how much they like calling Bush and the Republicans the militaristic war-mongering fascists who are going to declare martial law and take away all your rights.

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Still, have any of the Dem candidates said they would do any such thing? I would think that would be the last thing they would say, given how much they like calling Bush and the Republicans the militaristic war-mongering fascists who are going to declare martial law and take away all your rights.

I can well believe that a Democrat could do some thing like this. Take a look at today's Opinion Journal. They have an excerpt from a column published in Hawaii's Star Bulletin. The column ends with a statement that certain things should not be decided by a democratic vote but by a judicial fiat. You are probably right - a Democrat would not suspend the Constitution in order to install a military government. A modern Democrat could, however, suspend (or at least bypass) the Constitution in order to install a government by well-informed and well-meaning intellectuals.