Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Foreign AffairsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - Legislative hearings |
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... decision to commit the United States to any warmaking must be shared in by the Congress to be lawful . No ... decisions must be national decisions , shared in by the people's representatives in Congress as well as the President . By ...
... decision to commit the United States to any warmaking must be shared in by the Congress to be lawful . No ... decisions must be national decisions , shared in by the people's representatives in Congress as well as the President . By ...
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... decision to go to war being a national decision of the Congress and the President . NO ONE MAN KNOWS THE NATIONAL INTEREST Nor , Mr. Chairman , can we assume that one man alone knows the national interest . The national interest is the ...
... decision to go to war being a national decision of the Congress and the President . NO ONE MAN KNOWS THE NATIONAL INTEREST Nor , Mr. Chairman , can we assume that one man alone knows the national interest . The national interest is the ...
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... decision of war . And , in doing that , we act in the highest tradition of our country because those who wrote the Constitution had in mind , above every- thing , the fact that the king could commit a nation to war , and they would not ...
... decision of war . And , in doing that , we act in the highest tradition of our country because those who wrote the Constitution had in mind , above every- thing , the fact that the king could commit a nation to war , and they would not ...
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... decision for or against war , which could mean national survival . It certainly could mean deaths , injuries , mountains of treasure and a deep division of the country as we saw in Vietnam . Do we want to shift that over to the ...
... decision for or against war , which could mean national survival . It certainly could mean deaths , injuries , mountains of treasure and a deep division of the country as we saw in Vietnam . Do we want to shift that over to the ...
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... decision . I deeply believe that charged with that responsibility we will exercise it more responsibly . As to the various resolutions respecting the Vietnam war , you heard all the debates . " How can we let him down now ? What will ...
... decision . I deeply believe that charged with that responsibility we will exercise it more responsibly . As to the various resolutions respecting the Vietnam war , you heard all the debates . " How can we let him down now ? What will ...
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Page 390 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 53 - Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
Page 55 - Each Party recognizes that aggression by means of armed attack in the treaty area against any of the Parties or against any State or territory which the Parties by unanimous agreement may hereafter designate, would endanger its own peace and safety, and agrees that it will in that event act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
Page 443 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 43 - Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Page 390 - 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 321 - These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them. The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.
Page 69 - 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 46 - Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Page 436 - And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...