On Twitter, both before and after he was helping the authorities catch his compatriots, he was prone to grand declarations: "Give us liberty or give us death — and there's billions of us around the world.
National emergency declarations give Trump the ability to serve less as a one-of-three-branches-of-government president and more as CEO of America Inc., a role in which he's much more comfortable.
Tens of thousands of mainly Muslim Brotherhood supporters have filled Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest at the 11th-hour constitutional declaration giving the military sweeping powers.
The second is the Bush administration's handling of the World Trade Organisation Doha declaration giving poor countries the right to override pharmaceutical patents in public health emergencies.
Libya's surprise declaration giving up its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons was the culmination of a week of intense negotiations that followed months of secret diplomacy, officials in London and Washington said Saturday.
On 15 February, Trump made an unprecedented power grab by issuing an emergency declaration giving him power to build a wall on America's southern border, despite Congress rejecting his demand.
At the same time, however, he canceled an earlier constitutional declaration by the military that had gutted the authority of his office and replaced it with his own declaration, giving him broad legislative and executive powers and, potentially, a decisive role in the drafting of Egypt's new constitution.
A declaration giving details of the plan was issued on the second day of an emergency meeting near Windhoek involving representatives of Angola, Cuba, South Africa, the United States and the Soviet Union, all of which have a stake in the political settlement in southern Africa reached in December.
Opposition grew late last year, after he passed a constitutional declaration giving himself unlimited powers and pushed through an Islamist-tinged constitution.
Côte d'Ivoire is not a state party to the ICC, but the Ivorian government in 2003 submitted a declaration giving the court jurisdiction for events after September 19 , 2002
