The intention to use emergency powers is significant in that emergency powers may allow for greater intervention, with possible derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights[ 13].
A diary entry suggests that a year after Elizabeth's death Johnson was seeking a new wife "without any derogation from dear Tetty's memory".
Religious bodies, some recalled, had won a derogation from equality legislation so they could carry on using their own criteria to hire clerics.
Britain could seek a derogation from the European convention on grounds of national security, though this would be a profoundly unpopular option.
Will the government seek a derogation from article 12? Miller says she will announce the detail in relation to the plans tomorrow.
But Mr Clarke hopes they will pass: if necessary, he says, he will seek a new derogation from the clause in the European Convention on Human Rights that guarantees a right to liberty.
"Every grant to the president, including those relating to foreign affairs, was in effect a derogation from Congressional power, eked out slowly, reluctantly, and not without limitations and safeguards," Professor Henkin wrote, in a typically lucid and graceful passage.
"If it is to speed up the pace of change, then the process of passing a law for positive discrimination would itself be lengthy, requiring us to seek a derogation from the EU with no guarantee of success".
It was not enough that they had spent years in detention without charge or trial; the US authorities wanted to prove that this derogation from the Magna Carta was justified because they were very dangerous people.
No penalty for offenders was provided, and there was no derogation from the commander's powers during his tenure; nevertheless, the step was a landmark in the recognition of imperial responsibility, and it was also to have important effects on Roman politics.
