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To: Lurker

Emergency Powers
Over the years, Presidents have claimed to have emergency powers in times of crisis. These Inherent Powers have been used both at home and overseas. The most common use of emergency powers is to declare a state of emergency which allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to bypass normal administrative and jurisdictional rules. Declarations of emergency can also provide special federal aid such as during the Flood of 1993 along the Mississippi River or in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. President Abraham Lincoln used his emergency powers to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland during the American Civil War. President Harry Truman was also denied emergency powers by the Court in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer when he tried to nationalize the nation’s steel mills.

Got that off Wikipedia.


13 posted on 12/09/2011 7:20:22 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Jonty30
Over the years, Presidents have claimed to have emergency powers in times of crisis.

Where exactly are these so called "emergency powers" enumerated in the Constitution? Article and Section if you please.

Until you can do that, every word you type is utter bull****.

I'll wait.

16 posted on 12/09/2011 7:23:58 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Jonty30
in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

And we all know how well that worked out.

20 posted on 12/09/2011 7:29:33 PM PST by giotto
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