Note similarity between Enabling Act and Patriot Act

[steve2470]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act

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English Translation

1. Other than through the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may be decided upon by the government of the Reich as well. This includes laws as referred to by articles 85 subsection 2 and 87 of the constitution.


2. Laws decided upon by the government of the Reich may deviate from the provisions of the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat as such. The constitutional rights of the Reichspräsident shall remain intact.

3. Laws decided upon by the government of the Reich shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Law Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date. The articles 68 to 77 of the constitution shall not be applied to laws decided upon by the government of the Reich.


4. Contracts of the Reich with foreign states which affect matters of Reich legislation shall not require the approval of the bodies concerned with legislation. The government of the Reich shall issue the prescriptions required for the execution of such contracts.

5. This law shall take effect with the day of its announcement. It shall become invalid on April 1, 1937 or earlier, if the present Reich government is succeeded by a different one.

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Note the supposedly four year (1933-1937) duration of this "necessary" act. Hmmm......

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

1. and it was preceded by the Reichstag fire...

whereas the Patriot act was preceded by 911....

yep.

[wli]

2. where are the points of the PATRIOT act that are similar?

[steve2470]

3. specifically, the 4 year expiration part that was recently passed

secondarily by analogy, the curtailment of civil liberties which is obviously much more severe in the Enabling Act.