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
[103] 48 Stat. 20, March 23, 1933, earthquake; 48 Stat. 993, June 18,
1934, Sec. 3, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides; Disaster
Loan Corporation Act, 50 Stat. 19, February 11, 1937, “floods or other
catastrophes in the year 1937”; amendment to National Housing Act,
50 Stat. 70, April 22, 1937, “earthquake, conflagration, tornado,
cyclone, hurricane, flood, or other catastrophe”; Emergency Flood
Control Act, 59 Stat. 231, June 5, 1945, “floods, or windstorms,
or fire caused by lightning”; 61 Stat. 163, June 23, 1947, floods;
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1948, 61 Stat. 460, July 25,
1947, Sec. 3, “emergency caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God,
or sabotage”; Flood Rehabilitation Act, 1952, 65 Stat. 615, October
24, 1951, “excessive rains, runoff, and flood-waters”; Reconstruction
Finance Corporation Liquidation Act, 67 Stat. 230, July 30, 1953, Sec.
202, “floods and other catastrophes”; Presidential Proclamations No.
2222, and 2223, January 23, and February 1, 1937, 50 Stat. 1810, 1811,
January 23, 1937 and February 1, 1937, “disastrous floods”, “flood
conditions.”
[104] 50 Stat. 57, April 6, 1937.
[105] 50 Stat. 120, April 27, 1937.
[106] 65 Stat. 69, June 15, 1951.
[107] Famine Relief Act, 67 Stat. 476, August 7, 1953, Sec. 1.
_National Security Emergencies_
[108] Proclamation No. 2352, September 8, 1959, 54 Stat. 2643.
[109] Proclamation No. 2487, 55 Stat. 1647, May 27, 1941.
[110] _Id._
[111] 54 Stat. 885, September 16, 1940, Sec. 3 (a).
[112] 65 Stat. 75, June 19, 1951, Sec. 3.
[113] 61 Stat. 460, 491-492, July 25, 1947, Sec. 5.
[114] 54 Stat. 1220, November 30, 1940.
[115] 64 Stat. 1257, January 12, 1951, Sec. 1.
[116] Proclamation No. 2519, 55 Stat. 1693, October 22, 1941.
[117] 64 Stat. 1245, January 12, 1951, Sec. 3 (a).
[118] _Id._, Sec. 301.
[119] 66 Stat. 315, July 1, 1952, Sec. 2 (a). Section 201 (g) of
the Civil Defense Act, _op. cit._, had encouraged such compacts and
provided for their automatic approval in the absence of exercise of the
congressional veto. Here, however, Congress resorted to the traditional
machinery, enacting a statute granting its consent.
[120] 46 Stat. 696, June 17, 1930, Sec. 318.
[121] 48 Stat. 1064, June 19, 1934, Sec. 606 (c); 65 Stat. 611, October
24, 1951, Sec. 1.
[122] 54 Stat. 213, May 14, 1940.
[123] 59 Stat. 166, May 9, 1945.
[124] Proclamation No. 2561, 56 Stat. 1964, July 2, 1942; not
dissimilar to the December 8, 1941 Proclamations No. 2526 and 2527
declaring the existence of a threatened “invasion or predatory
incursion ... by Germany” and by Italy. 55 Stat. 1705, 1707.
[125] Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, 64 Stat. 987,
1021, September 22, 1950, Sec. 102.
PERCEIVING THE EXISTENCE OF AN EMERGENCY
[126] 61 Stat. 34, March 31, 1947, Sec. 2.
CHAPTER IV
[127] Roy Macridis, _The Study of Comparative Government_ (New York:
Doubleday and Co., 1955), p. 24.
POSITIVE INTEGRATION
[128] 53 Stat. 855, June 27, 1939, Sec. 2.
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