Impoundment of Appropriated Funds by the President: Joint Hearings Before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Impoundment of Funds of the Committee on Government Operations and the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, First Session on S. 373 |
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... constitutional principles of the separation and balance of powers between the three coordinate branches of government . In particular , the exercise of im- poundment gives the President an item veto prohibited by the Constitution as an ...
... constitutional principles of the separation and balance of powers between the three coordinate branches of government . In particular , the exercise of im- poundment gives the President an item veto prohibited by the Constitution as an ...
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... Constitutional power over the purse given to Congress has already wandered too far down Pennsylvania Avenue . ' " It is time for Congress not only to resist further erosions of Constitutional powers , but to reassert itself in the ...
... Constitutional power over the purse given to Congress has already wandered too far down Pennsylvania Avenue . ' " It is time for Congress not only to resist further erosions of Constitutional powers , but to reassert itself in the ...
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... constitutional powers of Congress , by giving the President authority to impound funds for a limited period pending Congres- sional review . " Both the need for greater economy in Government and better fiscal plan- ning require a ...
... constitutional powers of Congress , by giving the President authority to impound funds for a limited period pending Congres- sional review . " Both the need for greater economy in Government and better fiscal plan- ning require a ...
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... constitutional doctrines of separation of powers and checks and balances taught in our schools . Democracy comes hard , but it goes easily and , as the poet once said , frequently on " little cat's feet . " Thus , the President ...
... constitutional doctrines of separation of powers and checks and balances taught in our schools . Democracy comes hard , but it goes easily and , as the poet once said , frequently on " little cat's feet . " Thus , the President ...
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... constitutional no - man's land . This collision point may not be as remote as once it was thought to be . Last week ... constitutional problems . In my opinion that bill falls far short of what is necessary to restore the constitutional ...
... constitutional no - man's land . This collision point may not be as remote as once it was thought to be . Last week ... constitutional problems . In my opinion that bill falls far short of what is necessary to restore the constitutional ...
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Page 220 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 72 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
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Page 691 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 555 - In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad.
Page 18 - 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 661 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion...
Page 137 - The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.
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