By the Constitution of the United States the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States - Página 380de Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| David P. Currie - 1992 - 518 páginas
...no legal right. See, eg, id. at 165-66: By the Constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers,...exercise of which he is to use his own discretion .... [W]here the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely... | |
| California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 786 páginas
...responsible only to the country in his political character and to his own conscience, said: "To nid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who McCauley v. Brooks. act by his authority and in conformity with his orders. In such cases their acts... | |
| Christopher Wolfe - 1994 - 472 páginas
...is stated in Marbury v. Madison itself: By the constitution of the United States, the President is invested with certain important political powers,...his political character, and to his own conscience. . . . The subjects are political. They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being intrusted... | |
| Mark J. Rozell - 1994 - 222 páginas
...Supreme Court John Marshall wrote in the famous Marbury v. Madison (1803) case that "the president is invested with certain important political powers,...country in his political character, and to his own conscience."2' On another occasion Marshall commented that the president is the "sole organ of the... | |
| E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - 1994 - 728 páginas
...of Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch (5 US) 137, 165-166, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803): To aid him [the President] in the performance of these duties, he is authorized...his orders. In such cases, their acts are his acts ; . Under Constitutional principles of separation of powers, the authority to conduct foreign affairs... | |
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