War Powers Resolution: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, on a Review of the Operation and Effectiveness of the War Powers Resolution, July 13, 14, and 15, 1977, Volume 30U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 525 pages |
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... court challenge and the court found that he was acting illegally . " I then asked Mr. Leigh a hypothetical question . I said , assume there were an invasion by North Koreans of South Korea and American forces in South Korea were fired ...
... court challenge and the court found that he was acting illegally . " I then asked Mr. Leigh a hypothetical question . I said , assume there were an invasion by North Koreans of South Korea and American forces in South Korea were fired ...
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... court challenge and the court found that he was acting illegally . I then asked Mr. Leigh a hypothetical question : if Congress , after American troops had been sent in by the President to defend U.S. forces that had been fired upon in ...
... court challenge and the court found that he was acting illegally . I then asked Mr. Leigh a hypothetical question : if Congress , after American troops had been sent in by the President to defend U.S. forces that had been fired upon in ...
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... Court , but that is what Congress is doing when it attempts to demark the boundaries . between its War Powers and those allotted to the President . There are voluminous authorities that I could array in support of the independent war ...
... Court , but that is what Congress is doing when it attempts to demark the boundaries . between its War Powers and those allotted to the President . There are voluminous authorities that I could array in support of the independent war ...
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... Court , a long practice such as this one can fix the construction of the Constitution by the courts . Thus , the historical record does have legal significance as a source of inter- preting the Constitution and cannot be dismissed out ...
... Court , a long practice such as this one can fix the construction of the Constitution by the courts . Thus , the historical record does have legal significance as a source of inter- preting the Constitution and cannot be dismissed out ...
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... Court who have written that it is the President who holds " primary " responsi- bility for the conduct of foreign policy . For example , Justice Steward , joined by Justice White , has writ- ten that the Constitution endows the ...
... Court who have written that it is the President who holds " primary " responsi- bility for the conduct of foreign policy . For example , Justice Steward , joined by Justice White , has writ- ten that the Constitution endows the ...
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Page 25 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 56 - But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.
Page 205 - In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
Page 103 - The President is to be commanderin-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first general and admiral of the Confederacy...
Page 382 - ... 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Page 49 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it...
Page 208 - In questions of power then let no more be heard" of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief, by the chains of the Constitution.
Page 185 - Senate to the bill (HR 4961) to make miscellaneous changes in the tax laws, and for other purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House and the Senate in explanation of the effect...
Page 307 - President with respect to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situations wherein involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances which authority he would not have had in the absence of this joint resolution.
Page 56 - If men were angels, no Government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on Government would be necessary. In framing a Government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the Government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.