War Powers: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, Volume 4 |
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... situations where imminent involve- ment in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances . " The first three ... situation has been authorized in specific legislation enacted for that purpose by the Congress and pursuant to the ...
... situations where imminent involve- ment in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances . " The first three ... situation has been authorized in specific legislation enacted for that purpose by the Congress and pursuant to the ...
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... situation , Congress has been forced back onto relying solely on its power of the purse over appropriations . We have seen how difficult and unsatisfactory it is for Congress to try to get a meaningful hold on the Vietnam war through ...
... situation , Congress has been forced back onto relying solely on its power of the purse over appropriations . We have seen how difficult and unsatisfactory it is for Congress to try to get a meaningful hold on the Vietnam war through ...
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... situation is reversed , and the burden is placed on the Congress affirmatively to overrule the President's action , the Congress is likely to be faced with grave psychological obstacles as well as the threat of a veto requiring two ...
... situation is reversed , and the burden is placed on the Congress affirmatively to overrule the President's action , the Congress is likely to be faced with grave psychological obstacles as well as the threat of a veto requiring two ...
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... situation : There has never been any serious doubt of a President's constitutional authority to do what he ... situations , expiring at the end of 30 days , and , under our bill , requiring affirmative action by the Congress to entitle ...
... situation : There has never been any serious doubt of a President's constitutional authority to do what he ... situations , expiring at the end of 30 days , and , under our bill , requiring affirmative action by the Congress to entitle ...
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... situation willing to make 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 ...
... situation willing to make 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 ...
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30 days action amendment American forces appropriate armed attack Armed Forces BICKEL BIESTER BINGHAM BROWER Cambodia Chairman China circumstances Collective Defense Commander in Chief commitment committee CONG congressional approval congressional authorization constitutionally consultation Court Cuba Cuban missile crisis debate decision declaration of war DOLE Dominican Republic emergency executive branch FINDLEY foreign policy Foreign Relations FRASER Fulbright Fulbright Hearings gress Gulf of Tonkin hostilities House Joint Resolution international law involvement issue Javits bill judgment Korea landed limit Marines ment naval necessary peace political POWERS ACT powers legislation Presidential power problem Professor proposed protect American provision question repel require responsibility REVELEY SCHLESINGER SEATO SEATO Treaty Senator Javits situation South Vietnam Southeast Asia specific statement statute subcommittee supra note territory tion Tonkin Gulf Resolution Tonkin resolution troops United Nations veto Vietnam war vote WAR POWERS ACT warmaking powers ZABLOCKI
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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.