In 1933, Congressman Beck, speaking from the
Congressional Record, states:

"I think of all the damnable heresies that have
ever been suggested in connection with the Constitution, the
doctrine of emergency is the worst. It means that when Congress
declares an emergency, there is no Constitution.  This means its
death. It is the very doctrine that the German chancellor is
invoking today in the dying hours of the parliamentary body of
the German republic, namely, that because of an emergency, it
should grant to the German chancellor absolute power to pass any
law, even though the law contradicts the Constitution of the
German republic.  Chancellor Hitler is at least frank about it. 
We pay the Constitution lipservice, but the result is the same."

"But the Constitution of the United States, as a
restraining influence in keeping the federal government within
the carefully prescribed channels of power, is moribund, if not
dead.  We are witnessing its death-agonies, for when this bill
becomes a law, if unhappily it becomes a law, there is no longer
any workable Constitution to keep the Congress within the limits
of its Constitutional powers." 

What bill is Congressman Beck talking about? In 1933, "the House
passed the Farm Bill by a vote of more than three to one."
Again, we see the doctrine of emergency.  Once an emergency is
declared, there is no Constitution. The cause and effect of the
doctrine of emergency is the subject of this Report.

In 1973, in Senate Report 93-549, the first
sentence reads:

 "Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has 
been in a state of declared national emergency."