William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich explains how manipulative politicians worked to put Hitler in power for their own selfish aims, allowing him to take advantage of a law (in an otherwise very libertarian constitution) giving him complete control of government in an emergency, which was provided when the Reichstag was set on fire and blamed on communists.
There is no law in the USA which would grant the President such power, nor is there the kind of political and economic upheaval that Germany was dealing with at the time. For all of the attention that the POTUS gets, he has far less power than people seem to think. Surely, most of us remember a time when congress held hearings and impeached a President for boning an assistant? Yeah... that's not quite how Hitler rose to power.
There is no law in the USA which would grant the President such power, nor is there the kind of political and economic upheaval that Germany was dealing with at the time. For all of the attention that the POTUS gets, he has far less power than people seem to think. Surely, most of us remember a time when congress held hearings and impeached a President for boning an assistant? Yeah... that's not quite how Hitler rose to power.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
