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All this muscular presidentialism is an undeniable part of American political history and a reminder that aggressive use of executive powers in Donald Trump’s second term is not entirely new

FDR interned Japanese Americans and sanctioned the development of the most lethal weapon used in history without any substantial oversight or checks by Congress or the judiciary

These were powers unknown to even the most ambitious monarch

For all of Trump’s resort to emergency powers he has seldom stuck to the accepted playbook of crisis government

During the long run of the Cold War some of these enhanced authorities reappeared especially in instances where the nation’s security was vulnerable

He didn’t even tell his vice president about the bomb although Harry S Truman was the one who ultimately had to decide whether to use it

At the beginning of the Civil War Abraham Lincoln was the government of the United States for 11 weeks not even calling Congress back into session until he could get the Union war effort begun in a direction he single-handedly established

Later in the war he signed the Emancipation Proclamation which by the conventions of the day amounted to a monumental taking of private property

Enhanced legal constraints were created by Congress to control treasonous utterances and punish disloyalty which the president executed energetically through the federal courts

During the Great Depression and then the Second World War Franklin D Roosevelt ran a command economy

He supervised the growth of an unprecedented defense and national security state including surveillance of public and private communications

There is no crisis clause in the US Constitution

He directed human and natural resources to where he judged they were most needed

Wilson was granted by a compliant Congress the power to distribute fuels and other public necessaries to fix wheat prices and coal prices to take over factories and mines and to regulate the production of intoxicants

Lincoln’s powers were later dwarfed by Woodrow Wilson in World War I who could direct Americans as to how much sugar they could add to their morning coffee

He blockaded Southern ports a belligerent act widely understood to be the sole province of Congress

He controlled prices

The National Archives reports of Roosevelt’s Office of Censorship At its peak in September 1942 more than 10000 civil service employees opened and examined nearly one million pieces of incoming and outgoing overseas mail each week