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War presidency as limited-term dictatorship.(Brief article)
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, "Our big wars--and the war on terrorism ranks with the big ones--have a way of starting in the first year of a decade. Supreme Courts, which historically have been loath to intervene against presidential war powers in the midst of conflict, have tended to give the president until mid-decade to do what he wishes to the Constitution in order to win the war." (Emphasis added.)
By this reasoning, once a "state of war" exists--whether or not Congress has actually declared war--it is customary to permit the president a five-year period during which he is essentially an elected dictator.
To justify this assumption, Krauthammer ...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Ward, Jason Morgan February 1, 2007 700+ words
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- The Internment of Japanese Americans
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post November 18, 1996 700+ words
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