Al-Buraq
Banned
who says it hasn't been done already. think Bush/Cheney and the militrqay-industrial complex
A coup? In America? Unthinkable!
who says it hasn't been done already. think Bush/Cheney and the militrqay-industrial complex
There is a loophole in the constitution which would legally allow the formation of a dictatorship. I saw a web page about it somewhere, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Lincoln himself could have started a military dictatorship. OTL he dissolved civil rights under the pretext of the war. While this is slightly ASB (1864 elections probably weren't in doubt), that was probably the closest Americans ever got to military dictatorship.
Your scenario would reduce North America to a chaotic mess. The British had it right: the Canadian Articles of Confederation were foremost a way to avoid strife with the United States. The British spinoff of Canada would have been fortunate for the British if the USA and CSA were to descend into military and political chaos. Even if Canada were under attack Britain would have no obligation to commit soldiers and embroil itself in yet another war.
There was no Bush Administration before 1900, so one can rightly say it hasn't been done already.