War Powers: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Volume 4 |
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... Presidential war power so often used as a fine tuned , subtle , and decisive instrument with a clumsy , blunt , and ... Presidents have tended to see their role , as Commander in Chief conducting a war , as the decisive power of the ...
... Presidential war power so often used as a fine tuned , subtle , and decisive instrument with a clumsy , blunt , and ... Presidents have tended to see their role , as Commander in Chief conducting a war , as the decisive power of the ...
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... Presidential war can be handled by making distinctions between good Presidents and bad Presidents . We could never arrive at an agreed criteria for making such judgments and there is no way such distinctions could be applied to Presidential ...
... Presidential war can be handled by making distinctions between good Presidents and bad Presidents . We could never arrive at an agreed criteria for making such judgments and there is no way such distinctions could be applied to Presidential ...
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... Presidential war and to learn from what we have experienced in Viet- nam : That this question can no longer be left to the wrestling between the Congress and the President . Now it is time to codify it , and that is the purpose of this ...
... Presidential war and to learn from what we have experienced in Viet- nam : That this question can no longer be left to the wrestling between the Congress and the President . Now it is time to codify it , and that is the purpose of this ...
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... Presidential war it is almost impossible for Congress effectively to check its continuance . So now , we must finally reject the premise of " Presidential " war . No longer may any war be Johnson's war or Nixon's war or Truman's war ...
... Presidential war it is almost impossible for Congress effectively to check its continuance . So now , we must finally reject the premise of " Presidential " war . No longer may any war be Johnson's war or Nixon's war or Truman's war ...
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... PRESIDENTIAL INTERPRETATION OF WHAT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL If it cannot take the power away from him , what is he ... Presidents , like the Supreme Court , read election reports and read the papers and have an ear close to what Congress ...
... PRESIDENTIAL INTERPRETATION OF WHAT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL If it cannot take the power away from him , what is he ... Presidents , like the Supreme Court , read election reports and read the papers and have an ear close to what Congress ...
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Page 41 - 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 51 - 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 53 - 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 437 - 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 98 - In the absence of a declaration of war, in any case in which United States Armed Forces are introduced— (1) into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances...
Page 67 - 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 44 - 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 430 - 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...
Page 423 - Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not. by reas'on of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.
Page 41 - The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.