Continuity of Government: Is the State of Emergency Superseding our Constitution?

Continuity of Government: Is the State of Emergency Superseding our Constitution?

By Peter Dale Scott
Global Research
Published: November 24, 2010

Is the State of Emergency Superseding our Constitution? Address to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010

In July 1987, during the Iran-Contra Hearings grilling of Oliver North, the American public got a glimpse of “highly sensitive” emergency planning North had been involved in. Ostensibly North had been handling plans for an emergency response to a nuclear attack (a legitimate concern). But press accounts alleged that the planning was for a more generalized suspension of the constitution at the president’s determination.

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