The War Power After 200 Years: Congress and the President at a Constitutional Impasse : Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on War Powers of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, July 13, 14, August 5, September 7, 15, 16, 20, 23 and 29, 1988 |
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... U.S. forces abroad . Unfortunately , this intent has never been fulfilled . Indeed , from the moment of its enactment over President Nixon's veto , the reso- lution itself has been an object of dispute rather than an instru- mentality ...
... U.S. forces abroad . Unfortunately , this intent has never been fulfilled . Indeed , from the moment of its enactment over President Nixon's veto , the reso- lution itself has been an object of dispute rather than an instru- mentality ...
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... U.S. forces . In fact , the Senate's expan- sion of this to include not only repelling armed attacks , but to fore- stall the threat of such attacks , opened a dangerous loophole offer- ing Presidents legal authority to send American troops ...
... U.S. forces . In fact , the Senate's expan- sion of this to include not only repelling armed attacks , but to fore- stall the threat of such attacks , opened a dangerous loophole offer- ing Presidents legal authority to send American troops ...
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... U.S. forces dispatched in a crisis , we run the risk that the report may get into the public domain , thus removing any element of sur- prise U.S. forces may have enjoyed and eliminating any uncertain- ties the adversary might have as to ...
... U.S. forces dispatched in a crisis , we run the risk that the report may get into the public domain , thus removing any element of sur- prise U.S. forces may have enjoyed and eliminating any uncertain- ties the adversary might have as to ...
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... U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities . " Rather than fostering cooperation and bipartisanship in decisions to commit U.S. forces , the Resolution instead has served to pit Con- gress and the President against one another precisely at the ...
... U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities . " Rather than fostering cooperation and bipartisanship in decisions to commit U.S. forces , the Resolution instead has served to pit Con- gress and the President against one another precisely at the ...
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... United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, July 13, 14, August ... U.S. policy in Lebanon . Indeed , at the height of the debate within the ... forces . Finally , Mr. Chairman , one additional , brief passage . Lebanon ...
... United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, July 13, 14, August ... U.S. policy in Lebanon . Indeed , at the height of the debate within the ... forces . Finally , Mr. Chairman , one additional , brief passage . Lebanon ...
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Page 408 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Page 511 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Page 788 - 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 468 - The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all ; and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective...
Page 293 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.
Page 405 - It is obvious that there may be matters of the sharpest exigency for the national well being that an act of Congress could not deal with but that a treaty followed by such an act could, and it is not lightly to be assumed that, in matters requiring national action, "a power which must belong to and somewhere reside in every civilized government
Page 657 - 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 880 - 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 788 - Treaty unanimously designate for the purposes of Article IV of the Treaty the States of Cambodia and Laos and the free territory under the jurisdiction of the State of Vietnam.
Page 886 - Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations.