by user PhatShady If you have the time you might want to go and read National Security Directive 51. Then pucker up and kiss your Constitution good-bye. Not only has the administration just enacted a law without congressional oversight it also circumvents the protocols of succession enacted by the 25 th Amendment. An article by the Washington Post demonstrates how this enables the administration to consolidate power in response to a "Catastrophic Emergency." Not the congress, not the courts, not the 25th Amendment.