National Emergency: Constitutional questions concerning emergency powersU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - War and emergency powers |
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... SENATE NINETY - THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PART 3 - CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING EMERGENCY POWERS WASHINGTON , D.C. , NOVEMBER 28 , 1973 Printed for the use of the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency ...
... SENATE NINETY - THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PART 3 - CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING EMERGENCY POWERS WASHINGTON , D.C. , NOVEMBER 28 , 1973 Printed for the use of the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency ...
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... Senate . Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency . HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY - THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 26-147 PART 3 ...
... Senate . Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency . HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY - THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 26-147 PART 3 ...
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United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency. CONTENTS NATIONAL ... Senator Mathias , co - chairman_- WITNESSES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Richardson , Mr. Elliot L. , former Attorney ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency. CONTENTS NATIONAL ... Senator Mathias , co - chairman_- WITNESSES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Richardson , Mr. Elliot L. , former Attorney ...
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... Senator CHURCH . The hearing will please come to order . This is the only committee of the Congress that is fully bipartisan ; it is chaired by both Senator Mathias and myself . We follow the practice of what Senator Mathias calls a ...
... Senator CHURCH . The hearing will please come to order . This is the only committee of the Congress that is fully bipartisan ; it is chaired by both Senator Mathias and myself . We follow the practice of what Senator Mathias calls a ...
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... Senator Mathias and myself.1 Today , our main concern is with the broad question of the accounta- bility of the executive branch for actions taken pursuant to authority contained in statutes which delegate extraordinary power to the ...
... Senator Mathias and myself.1 Today , our main concern is with the broad question of the accounta- bility of the executive branch for actions taken pursuant to authority contained in statutes which delegate extraordinary power to the ...
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Page 785 - The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. Section 3. He shall from time to time give to the congress information of the state of the Union...
Page 896 - Without admitting that such an act was necessary under the circumstances, it is plain that if the President had in any manner assumed powers which it was necessary should have the authority or sanction of Congress, that on the...
Page 784 - Postmasters of the first, second and third classes shall be appointed and may be removed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall hold their offices for four years unless sooner removed or suspended according to law.
Page 858 - The form of proceeding for judicial review shall be any special statutory review proceeding relevant to the subject matter in any court specified by statute or, in the absence or inadequacy thereof, any applicable form of legal action (including actions for declaratory judgments or writs of prohibitory or mandatory injunction or habeas corpus) in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 889 - The enumeration ought therefore to be considered, as intended merely to specifiy the principal articles implied in the definition of executive power; leaving the rest to flow from the general grant of that power, interpreted in conformity with other parts of the constitution and with the principles of free government. The general doctrine of our constitution then is, that the executive power of the nation is vested in the president; subject only to the exceptions and qualifications, which are expressed...
Page 891 - Each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the house of representatives, of the senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Page 789 - The ordinary duties of officers prescribed by statute come under the general administrative control of the President by virtue of the general grant to him of the executive power, and he may properly supervise and guide their construction of the statutes under which they act in order to secure that unitary and uniform execution of the laws which Article II of the Constitution evidently contemplated in vesting general executive power in the President alone.
Page 785 - Secretary to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be removable by the President.
Page 771 - Proclamations calling for the observance of special days or events. Except as may be otherwise provided by law, responsibility for the preparation and presentation of proposed proclamations calling for the observance of special days, or other periods of time, or events shall be assigned by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget [now Office of Management and Budget] to such agencies as he may consider appropriate.
Page 896 - If it were necessary to the technical existence of a war, that it should have a legislative sanction, we find it in almost every act passed at the extraordinary session of the legislature of 1861, which was wholly employed in enacting laws to enable the government to prosecute the war with vigor and efficiency.