Whether a definite period for ratification shall be fixed so that all may know what it is and speculation on what is a reasonable time may be avoided, is, in our opinion, a matter of detail which Congress may determine as an incident of its power to designate... United States Congressional Serial Set - Page 561928Full view - About this book
| Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pages
...such a limit. In the case at bar it was affirmed that the power to make the limit a definite one is " a matter of detail which Congress may determine as...its power to designate the mode of ratification." The seven-year limit set for the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment was said to be reasonable,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1921 - 868 pages
...such a limit. In the case at bar it was affirmed that the power to make the limit a definite one is " a matter of detail which Congress may determine as...its power to designate the mode of ratification." The seven-year limit set for the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment was said to be reasonable,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1938 - 100 pages
...petitioner could hardly claim injury. The particular dictum within a dictum is found in the phrase: "speculation on what is a reasonable time may be avoided,...of its power to designate the mode of ratification" (256 US 376). The court decided that article V by implication reads "when ratified within a reasonable... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 260 pages
...public interests and changing conditions may require г ; and Article V is no exception to the rule. Whether a definite period for ratification shall be...of its power to designate the mode of ratification. It is not questioned that seven years, the period fixed in this instance, was reasonable, if power... | |
| Legislative power - 1982 - 750 pages
...the public interests and changing conditions may require; and Article V is no exception to the rule. Whether a definite period for ratification shall be...of its power to designate the mode of ratification. Id. at 374-6, 41 S.Ct. at 512-13. As a subsidiary matter of detail, Congress has the power, pursuant... | |
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