ah challenge:make the us a military dictatorship

Al-Buraq

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who says it hasn't been done already. think Bush/Cheney and the militrqay-industrial complex


A coup? In America? Unthinkable!
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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.

Whats so chaotic? Sure you have a weak United States held together by a general or dictator. But down south you have 11 or 12 different republics all running on their own accord, trading and helping each other.

And Canada is just hanging out up north, not getting into any trouble. In the scenario I laid it the British never declare war on the U.S. they just recognize Confederate independence.
 
There was no Bush Administration before 1900, so one can rightly say it hasn't been done already.

Touche.
Re:Operation Northwoods
in a word: bastards, This takes McNamara to whole new level of bastardhood. Some how I am not surprised though.


As the realistic pre-1900 I say the Newburgh plot.
 
Also what comes to mind, as discussed in another thread, is that the definition of dictator has changed since the (or even during) the 18th and 19th century. A dictatorship doesn't necessarily have to have negative connotations to it.
 
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