Yes but the other 64 times martial law has been used in this country, we survived.
He is very open about his admiration for Lincoln above other presidents.
Temporarily coloring outside the lines a little in order to save the Republic from literal destruction and subjugation to communism (which itself is far more injurious to the Constitution) and then going right back to normal governance would not be the end of the world IMO
It's unfair to expect the Framers of the Constitution to have anticipated literally every future contingency or technology. They never envisioned communism, global medical hegemony, the internet, etc. Even TV or telephones would appear to them as sorcery. Maybe we have to step in sometimes and do what we know they would have wanted (as when Lincoln rescued the Republic from itself).
Yes but the other 64 times martial law has been used in this country, we survived.
He is very open about his admiration for Lincoln above other presidents.
Temporarily coloring outside the lines a little in order to save the Republic from literal destruction and subjugation to communism (which itself is far more injurious to the Constitution) and then going right back to normal governance would not be the end of the world IMO
It's unfair to expect the Framers of the Constitution to have anticipated literally every future contingency or technology. They never envisioned communism, global medical hegemony, the internet, etc. Even TV or telephones would appear to them as sorcery. Maybe we have to step in sometimes and do what we know they would have wanted (as when Lincoln rescued the Republic from itself).