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> Emergency powers are not in the constitution, they’re basically “up in the air” of precedent.

No, emergency powers that actually exist are components of Constitutionally enumerated powers and, for the President, are mostly spelled out in statute law passed by Congress under its Constitutionally enumerated powers.

There is no source of powers for the US government outside of the Constitution.




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