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Originally Posted by douglas1999
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But he can't do that, because it's unconstitutional. He also can't necessarily do all of those things, because he can't just decree things like a magic king. As much as people like to call him a "fascist", the architecture of our political system literally prevents the president from becoming that. That was the whole idea with three branches of government and state sovereignty.
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Paging Jibartnik: A conservative would resist the expansion of power during an emergency, fearing the powers would become permanent and reduce our federal republic to an executive state. You wanted an example here is one from someone else since I guess you missed a more complete list
I produced earlier.