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There is no crisis clause in the US Constitution

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

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

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

This is not an institution grown muscular from the natural push and pull of American politics

In times of genuine crisis Americans typically turn to a single vigorous national leader

Russell Riley argues Congress’s hesitancy to do its job would have puzzled the Constitution’s framers

Troops became Bush’s to deploy unilaterally

Intrusive intelligence was his to gather

The economy was his to repair and resurrect

Trump is different

We have had a constitutional dictatorship before

He was in broad command of our political system

On the afternoon of Sept 12 2001 Russell Riley set aside prepared remarks and offered undergraduates a prediction about their futures

Republican and Democratic members of Congress joined hands on the steps of the Capitol to sing “God Bless America”

During normal times government is divided and the zigzag path it follows emerges from the muddled process of compromise and consensus

George W Bush enjoyed extraordinary latitude to lead the nation against the threat of global terrorism until the president’s missteps in Iraq intruded years later

Jack Nicas is The Times’s Mexico City bureau chief leading coverage of Mexico Central America and the Caribbean

U.S. officials arrested an American man using a drone to transport 12 packages of methamphetamine from Mexico to San Diego in 2017