National Emergency: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - War and emergency powers |
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... receiving , from the House of Commons virtually an absolute delega- tion of emergency power . There is one dimension of the British war experience in the First World War which is very important , I think , for constitutional democracy ...
... receiving , from the House of Commons virtually an absolute delega- tion of emergency power . There is one dimension of the British war experience in the First World War which is very important , I think , for constitutional democracy ...
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... received relatively little attention either by Congress or in the textbook analysis of presidential powers . Just 2 years ago , the Sen- ate Committee on Foreign Relations , as you gentlemen know all too 1 " Public Papers of the ...
... received relatively little attention either by Congress or in the textbook analysis of presidential powers . Just 2 years ago , the Sen- ate Committee on Foreign Relations , as you gentlemen know all too 1 " Public Papers of the ...
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... received the Pulit- zer prize 2 years ago , wrote in a special presidential edition of Life Magazine in 1968 : I have watched White House aides , the Attorney General and four - star gen- erals wrestling with the problem of riots in the ...
... received the Pulit- zer prize 2 years ago , wrote in a special presidential edition of Life Magazine in 1968 : I have watched White House aides , the Attorney General and four - star gen- erals wrestling with the problem of riots in the ...
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... received in the form of the Defense Production Act of 1950 , one of the most comprehensive delegatory statutes in modern history . Truman's declaration of a national emergency was a direct consequence of the enlargement of the Korean ...
... received in the form of the Defense Production Act of 1950 , one of the most comprehensive delegatory statutes in modern history . Truman's declaration of a national emergency was a direct consequence of the enlargement of the Korean ...
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... received a message that the Chinese Communists had be- gun a heavy artillery shelling of Quemoy Island . One intelligence report pre- dicted that the Communists would launch an assault against Quemoy Island . That is the way the ...
... received a message that the Chinese Communists had be- gun a heavy artillery shelling of Quemoy Island . One intelligence report pre- dicted that the Communists would launch an assault against Quemoy Island . That is the way the ...
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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.