Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - Courts |
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ACREE action plan adjournment administration agency AMBROSE Archibald Cox Article authority BIESTER bill BORK Chairman Chief Judge clause committee Congress constitutional constitutionality counsel Culver Customs DENNIS Department of Justice District Court District Director District of Columbia Drug Enforcement Administration duties EDWARDS EEO Counselor EEO officer EEO program employees Equal Employment Opportunity equal opportunity executive branch Federal Female Male Female functions going Government grand jury hire HOGAN HOLTZMAN Humphrey's Executor HUNGATE indictment inferior officers INGERSOLL Jaworski judicial Judiciary KASTENMEIER legislation Male Female Male matter MAYNE ment minority group October 24 Personnel Officer pocket veto position President Presidential problem question RANGEL recruiting Regional commissioner removal responsibility Senate separation of powers SMITH special agents Special Prosecutor staff statement statute subcommittee supervisors Supreme Court testimony Thank tion U.S. attorney United United States Attorney United States Code vest the appointment Watergate White House WIGGINS
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Page 63 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Page 75 - Administrator may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance of any of the functions transferred to him by the provisions of this reorganization plan by any other officer, or by any organizational entity or employee, of the Agency.
Page 75 - Incidental transfers, (a) So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed...
Page 119 - But it would be an alarming doctrine, that congress cannot impose upon any executive officer any duty they may think proper, which is not repugnant to any rights secured and protected by the constitution; and in such cases, the duty and responsibility grow out of and are subject to the control of the law, and not to the direction of the President.
Page 148 - ... to exercise its judgment without the leave or hindrance of any other official or any department of the government.
Page 75 - Legislative power, as distinguished from executive power, is the authority to make laws, but not to enforce them or appoint the agents charged with the duty of such enforcement. The latter are executive functions.
Page 52 - ... where the whole power of one department is exercised by the same hands which possess the whole power of another department, the fundamental principles of a free constitution are subverted.
Page 52 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 60 - The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments — the legislative, executive and judicial; and no person, or collection of persons, being one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Page 354 - Commission is an administrative body created by Congress to carry into effect legislative policies embodied in the statute in accordance with the legislative standard therein prescribed, and to perform other specified duties as a legislative or as a judicial aid. Such a body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of the executive. Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control. In administering...