Powers of the President during crisesSmith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm)
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Powers of the President during crises
Smith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm)
Constitutional history -- United States; Executive power -- United States
[33] _Id._, at 356-58.
[34] _Id._, at 338-41.
[35] _Id._, at 338.
[36] _Constitutional Government and Democracy_, Ch. XXVI, rev. ed.
(Boston: Ginn & Co., 1949).
[37] _Id._, at 573.
[38] _Id._, at 580.
[39] _Id._, 574-584.
[40] _Id._, at 584.
[41] Clinton L. Rossiter, _Constitutional Dictatorship_ (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1948), p. 288ff.
[42] Here, citing Friedrich, he observes “there might well have
been no crisis in 1933 if President Roosevelt had been required to
appoint another to wield the abnormal display of power which he seemed
to find so necessary at the moment.” _Id._, at 303. But since he
later specifically advocates retention of what he describes as “the
inherent emergency power of the President” (p. 308), why hobble it by
discouraging a presidential finding of the existence of an emergency?
Cf. Grier, J., in _Prize Cases_, 2 Black 635, 669-71 (1862), holding
that war (emergency) may commence when the Chief Executive takes up a
proferred challenge.
[43] Rossiter, _op. cit._, pp. 298-306.
[44] _Id._, at 310-11.
[45] _Id._, at 309.
[46] _The Supreme Court and the Commander in Chief_ (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1951), p. 1, see p. 19 _infra_.
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT EXPERIENCE.
[47] _Op. cit._, p. 573.
[48] _Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern_ (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1940), p. 180.
[49] _Id._, at 246.
[50] _Id._, at 1.
[51] _Id._, at 146.
[52] Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion in _Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Co._ v. _Sawyer_, 343 U. S. 579 at 634-55 (1952), in which he discusses
the relative power of the President acting under his executive powers
alone, and acting under a marriage of executive and congressional
powers, is opposite here.
[53] Note William Y. Elliott’s theory of the co-organic society, in
_The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics_, (New York: Macmillan, 1928), pp.
355-77.
[54] See Cecil T. Carr, _Delegated Legislation_ (Cambridge: University
Press, 1921) p. 72, and _Concerning English Administrative Law_ (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1941), p. 189; Lord Hewart of Bury,
_The New Despotism_ (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929), p.
308; W. A. Robson, _Justice and Administrative Law_ (London: Stevens,
1945), p. 385, and Marguerite A. Sieghart, _Government by Decree_
(London: Stevens, 1950), p. 343.
CHAPTER III
[55] The Emergency Powers (Defense) Act, 1939, 2 & 3 Geo. 6, Ch. 62,
Sec. 1.
[56] 61 Stat. 136, June 23, 1947, Sec. 206, 29 U.S.C. 176.
EMERGENCIES VARY IN INTENSITY
[57] Proclamation No. 2076, 48 Stat. 1734, February 16, 1934.
[58] 63 Stat. 208, June 20, 1949, Sec. 10 (b).
[59] Proclamation No. 2352, 54 Stat. 2643, September 8, 1939.
[60] 48 Stat. 354, February 23, 1934, Sec. 2 (b).
[61] Bank Conservation Act, 48 Stat. 1, March 9, 1933, Preamble.
[62] Proclamation No. 2153, 49 Stat. 3489, January 10, 1936.
[63] Veterans’ Emergency Housing Act, 60 Stat. 207, May 22, 1946, Sec.
1 (a).
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