Executive Orders: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process of the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on the Impact of Executive Orders on the Legislative Process, Executive Lawmaking? October 27, 1999 |
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... National Archives and Records Administration ( prepared statement p . 138 ) 137 Policy Analysis : Executive Orders and National Emergencies , How Presi- dents Have Come to Run the Country by Usurping Legislative Power , by William J ...
... National Archives and Records Administration ( prepared statement p . 138 ) 137 Policy Analysis : Executive Orders and National Emergencies , How Presi- dents Have Come to Run the Country by Usurping Legislative Power , by William J ...
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... National Emergencies . " We are very pleased to have Mr. Olson with us here today . You are a panel unto yourself . Your prepared remarks will be ac- cepted into the record without objection , and any enlightenment you wish to share ...
... National Emergencies . " We are very pleased to have Mr. Olson with us here today . You are a panel unto yourself . Your prepared remarks will be ac- cepted into the record without objection , and any enlightenment you wish to share ...
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... National Monument , which has been alluded to before by Mr. Hastings . And he said in his testimony , " I am not ... Emergencies , How Presidents Have Come to Run the Country by Usurping Legislative Power . " [ Paper by William J. Olson and ...
... National Monument , which has been alluded to before by Mr. Hastings . And he said in his testimony , " I am not ... Emergencies , How Presidents Have Come to Run the Country by Usurping Legislative Power . " [ Paper by William J. Olson and ...
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... National Emergencies How Presidents Have Come to " Run the Country " by Usurping Legislative Power by William J. Olson and Alan Woll Executive Summary William J. Olson heads a McLean , Virginia , law firm ( www.wjopc.com ) that focuses ...
... National Emergencies How Presidents Have Come to " Run the Country " by Usurping Legislative Power by William J. Olson and Alan Woll Executive Summary William J. Olson heads a McLean , Virginia , law firm ( www.wjopc.com ) that focuses ...
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... National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers noted that [ t ] he legal record of executive deci- sionmaking has thus continued to be closed from the light of public or congressional scrutiny through . the use of classified ...
... National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers noted that [ t ] he legal record of executive deci- sionmaking has thus continued to be closed from the light of public or congressional scrutiny through . the use of classified ...
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Page 142 - 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 57 - Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Page 50 - 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 59 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 61 - I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.
Page 63 - When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
Page 63 - 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 146 - When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate.
Page 56 - Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers...
Page 104 - The power of Congress to adopt such public policies as those proclaimed by the order is beyond question. It can authorize the taking of private property for public use.