Sunday, February 1, 2026

Dear ChatGPT: Provide examples of economic emergencies declared by presidents.

One way to understand the growth of executive power in the United States is to chart the use of emergency powers to justfy it. 

Here is a look at economic emergencies, but as you can see economic emergencies and military emergencies can overlap.

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Here are two additional, related questions: 

- Why does the president have emergency powers?

- What does the U.S. Constitution say about emergency powers