 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...people they suspected of disloyalty. "Whether strictly legal or not," he explained, these measures "were ventured upon, under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity; trusting . . . that Congress would readily ratify them." Such actions proved that Lincoln did not lack daring... | |
 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 353 pages
...acknowledged, in his message, doubts as to his constitutional power to make these calls, and said they " were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity." He took the ground, however, that while he might have usurped the powers of Congress, he bad not gone... | |
 | Joel D. Aberbach, Mark A. Peterson - Political Science - 2005 - 644 pages
...authorization explicitly required by the Constitution. Lincoln told Congress, "These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what appeared to be popular demand and a public necessity, trusting that Congress would readily ratify them."12 Congress... | |
 | Harold J Krent - Law - 2005 - 288 pages
...the President."132 later justified his acts on the ground that "whether strictly legal or not, [they] were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and public necessity; trusting then . . . that Congress would readily ratify them."133 His actions foreshadowed... | |
 | Giorgio Agamben - History - 2005 - 118 pages
...necessity. "Whether strictly legal or not," he declared, the measures he had adopted had been taken "under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity" in the certainty that Congress would ratify them. They were based on the conviction that even fundamental... | |
 | Oren Gross, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin - Political Science - 2006 - 48 pages
...extraordinary measures that he had taken prior to July 4, 1861, Lincoln said that those measures, "whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what...demand, and a public necessity; trusting, then as now, that Congress would readily ratify them. It is believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...sooner discharged, and also for large additions to the regular army and navy. These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what...demand and a public necessity, trusting then, as now, that Congress would ratify them. It is believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional... | |
 | Peter Irons - Law - 2006 - 328 pages
...authority. Soon after Congress returned to session in 1861, he told its members that his actions, "whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what...demand and a public necessity, trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them." Lincoln was not the first president, and certainly not the... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...never denied that he had stretched his Presidential power. "These measures," he declared, "whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what...demand, and a public necessity; trusting, then as now, that Congress would readily ratify them." 33 Lincoln thus confronted Congress with a fait accompli.... | |
 | Jack L. Goldsmith - Executive power - 2007 - 266 pages
...necessary to meet the crisis, and asked Congress to approve them. Many of these measures, "whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what...demand and a public necessity, trusting then as now that Congress would readily ratify them," Lincoln told Congress in a July 4, 1861, address that satisfied... | |
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These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what appeared to be a popular demand, and a public necessity; trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them. 
