Review of the War Powers Resolution: Hearings Before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First and Second Sessions : Hearings Held May 24 and September 26, 1989 and January 29, 1990, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 335 páginas |
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Página 58 - 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.
Página 83 - If a war be made by invasion of a foreign nation, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority. And whether the hostile party be a foreign invader, or States organized in rebellion, it is none the less a war, although the declaration of it be
Página 76 - Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks : it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular...
Página 77 - 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.
Página 76 - This unity may be destroyed in two ways; either by vesting the power in two or more magistrates of equal dignity and authority; or by vesting it ostensibly in one man, subject, in whole or in part, to the control and cooperation of others, in the capacity of counsellors to him.
Página 65 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Página 86 - Congress has the power not only to raise and support and govern armies, but to declare war. It has, therefore, the power to provide by law for carrying on war. This power necessarily extends to all legislation essential to the prosecution of war with vigor and success, except such as interfere with the command of the forces and the conduct of campaigns. That power and duty belong to the President as Commander in Chief.
Página 216 - Is this duty limited to the enforcement of acts of Congress or of treaties of the United States according to their express terms, or does it include the rights, duties and obligations growing out of the Constitution itself, our international relations, and all the protection implied by the nature of the government under the Constitution...
Página 116 - District would not have had the occasion to participate beforehand in the choice of the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate...
Página 79 - MASON was against giving the power of war to the executive, because not safely to be trusted with it ; or to the Senate, because not so constructed as to be entitled to it. He was for clogging, rather than facilitating, war ; but for facilitating peace. He preferred " declare " to " make" On the motion to insert " declare" in place of " make