War Powers Legislation, 1973: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, on S. 440 ... |
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... military operations in Vietnam and free our prisoners of war and to bring about a cease - fire , claims of constitutional author- ity to engage in bombing in Cambodia or military reentry into Vietnam seem to me to lack any substance ...
... military operations in Vietnam and free our prisoners of war and to bring about a cease - fire , claims of constitutional author- ity to engage in bombing in Cambodia or military reentry into Vietnam seem to me to lack any substance ...
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... military force on foot , " surely comprehends the right to insist that a portion of the military forces should not be kept " on foot " in Vietnam or Europe . RIGHT TO SPECIFY HOW APPROPRIATED MONEYS SHALL BE SPENT With the power of ...
... military force on foot , " surely comprehends the right to insist that a portion of the military forces should not be kept " on foot " in Vietnam or Europe . RIGHT TO SPECIFY HOW APPROPRIATED MONEYS SHALL BE SPENT With the power of ...
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... military force on foot , " surely com- prehends the right to insist that a portion of the military forces should not be kept " on foot " in Vietnam or Europe . With the power of appropriation goes the right to specify how appropriated ...
... military force on foot , " surely com- prehends the right to insist that a portion of the military forces should not be kept " on foot " in Vietnam or Europe . With the power of appropriation goes the right to specify how appropriated ...
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... military that will be obeyed . Congress can rage as much as it likes about its constitutional prerogative to declare war . But if it expects to prevent the President from giving such orders to the armed forces as he feels are necessary ...
... military that will be obeyed . Congress can rage as much as it likes about its constitutional prerogative to declare war . But if it expects to prevent the President from giving such orders to the armed forces as he feels are necessary ...
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... MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS SHOULD BE CUT ANYWAY I am so conscious of my own conviction that much in this military appropriation is unnecessary and wasteful , that it ought to be cut any- way , even if none of these other things were around ...
... MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS SHOULD BE CUT ANYWAY I am so conscious of my own conviction that much in this military appropriation is unnecessary and wasteful , that it ought to be cut any- way , even if none of these other things were around ...
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Page 174 - No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted...
Page 140 - Nations furnish such assistance to the Republic of Korea as may be necessary to repel the armed attack and to restore international peace and security in the area.
Page 187 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 263 - 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 157 - 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; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies — all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature...
Page 256 - 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 249 - 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 237 - United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances...
Page 199 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 157 - The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue, which would make it wise in a Nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a Magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.