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Martial Law is limited in duration and effects even if contemplated by a president. Martial Law and Domestic Disorder. Sc Ruling Duterte Can Put Entire Ph Under Martial Law However Marcos retained virtually all of the executive powers he held as dictator through a combination of the 1972 constitution and the various decrees he had put in place before Martial Law which all. President martial law . Most constitutional scholars say an American president does not have the authority to declare martial law to deal with civil unrest after an election and if a president tried Congress and the US. Congress has never declared martial law. Millard Tawes imposed it on the city of Cambridge in connection with race riots. Martial law was lifted by President Marcos on January 17 1981 through Proclamation 2045. However at the outset of the Civil War in July 1861 Congress ratified most of the martial law measures declared by President Abraham Lincoln. Congress has given the president consi