The Legal Rights of Extraterrestrials (1977)

This stood out to me:

> The United States is presently in a state of national emergency. (It has been continuously since the early 1930s!) This fact is not generally known or appreciated by the public. The Presidential proclamations of national emergency issued under Roosevelt (1933), Truman (1950), and Nixon (1970, 1971) were not terminated when the crises that spawned them had passed. Our country remains under four separate active declarations of emergency.

I checked and the mentioned national emergencies ended in 1978.

Looks like there was a brief gap until November 14, 1979, when Carter imposed sanctions against Iran that are still in effect.

There are now 34 national emergencies in effect, besides Carter's going back to Clinton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...