Nomination of W. Wilson White: Hearings ... Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on Nomination of W. Wilson White, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Attorney General to Head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. February 4 and 25, 1958, and July 18 and 22, 1958U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 89 pages |
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Page 30 - 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.
Page 28 - 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 32 - 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?
Page 61 - SEC. 111. There shall be in the Department of Justice one additional Assistant Attorney General, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall assist the Attorney General in the performance of his duties, and who shall receive compensation at the rate prescribed by law for other Assistant Attorneys General.
Page 56 - Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the Armed Forces under this Chapter, he shall, by Proclamation, immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited, time.
Page 56 - State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it— "(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law...
Page 11 - In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and are not of themselves laws.
Page 27 - The President's power, if any, to issue the order must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself.
Page 12 - The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy...
Page 56 - President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, makes it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State or Territory by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings...