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Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi... by throwup238 on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:43PM (#42614696)
> I don't think the US or France can just do a simple (parliamentary!) majority vote to override almost every right their citizens have.

What about the WWII Japanese internment camps? That wasn’t even a legislative action, it was Executive order 9066. There’s also the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act during the civil war.

I agree it’s not as blatantly spelled out in the Constitution but the mechanisms exist.

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