The birth of France's Fifth Republic archive, October 1958
The Fifth Republic concentrates executive power in a directly elected president while retaining parliamentary elements and expanding emergency and dissolution powers at parliamentary expense.
Trump Declares, I Have the Right To Do Anything I Want' Because I'm the President'
President Trump asserted unilateral authority to deploy federal and military forces into U.S. cities, claiming he can act despite local opposition and emphasizing police cooperation.
No one man should have all that power. But there is an obvious solution-one that has almost been forgotten in the second Trump term. Congress should do its job.