National Emergency: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - War and emergency powers |
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... question before the people of the United States and particularly before this committee is : " How can a de- mocracy face the various challenges of these uncertain times and still remain a democracy ? " Or to put it differently , " How ...
... question before the people of the United States and particularly before this committee is : " How can a de- mocracy face the various challenges of these uncertain times and still remain a democracy ? " Or to put it differently , " How ...
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... question . A question that has been before the American people since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt has been that of the President's authority to effect the reallocation of powers without an express change in the statutory basis . It ...
... question . A question that has been before the American people since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt has been that of the President's authority to effect the reallocation of powers without an express change in the statutory basis . It ...
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... question . Senator MATHIAS . I ask you these questions because in your book , " Freedom and Emergency Powers in the Cold War , " it seems you pose the basic constitutional question which is : Whether civil liberty , as we have known it ...
... question . Senator MATHIAS . I ask you these questions because in your book , " Freedom and Emergency Powers in the Cold War , " it seems you pose the basic constitutional question which is : Whether civil liberty , as we have known it ...
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... question- it is an important question -- but he himself wrote that a warming up of the Cold War would bring about this very kind of exaggerated action . I think it is- QUESTIONABLE ACTION - WHETHER PROPER OR NOT Dr. RANKIN . I think ...
... question- it is an important question -- but he himself wrote that a warming up of the Cold War would bring about this very kind of exaggerated action . I think it is- QUESTIONABLE ACTION - WHETHER PROPER OR NOT Dr. RANKIN . I think ...
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... question that relates to the statement you made in your testimony in relation to the Mississippi situation and the withholding of funds . Do you think that the enactment of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act has , at least , put to ...
... question that relates to the statement you made in your testimony in relation to the Mississippi situation and the withholding of funds . Do you think that the enactment of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act has , at least , put to ...
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Page 331 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 478 - It is important to bear in mind that we are here dealing not alone with an authority vested in the President by an exertion of legislative power, but with such an authority plus the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the Federal Government in the field of international relations — a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress, but which, of course, like every other governmental power, must be exercised in subordination...
Page 796 - It is a maxim not to be disregarded that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which those expressions are used. If they go beyond the case, they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in a subsequent suit when the very point is presented for decision.
Page 540 - I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation.
Page 252 - Board shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the Board, its member, agent, or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.
Page 337 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to SCHNEIDER V.
Page 477 - It results that the investment of the federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution. The powers to declare and wage war, to conclude peace, to make treaties, to maintain diplomatic relations with other sovereignties, if they had never been mentioned in the Constitution, would have vested in the federal government as necessary concomitants of nationality.
Page 476 - As a result of the separation from Great Britain by the colonies, acting as a unit, the powers of external sovereignty passed from the Crown not to the colonies severally, but to the colonies in their collective and corporate capacity as the United States of America.
Page 597 - Act shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation shall be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both...
Page 469 - ... being the development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters. It was enough for them to realize or to hope that they had created an organism; it has taken a century and has cost their successors much sweat and blood to prove that they created a nation. The case before us must be considered in the light of our whole experience and not merely in that of what was said a hundred years ago.