| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1935 - 106 pages
...to lessen Government expenditure, would be not the practice of economy, but an act of repudiation." The argument in favor of the joint resolution, as...obligations is a competence attaching to sovereignty. In the United States, sovereignty resides in the people who act through the organs established by the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1960 - 1732 pages
...incurs responsibilities similar to those of individuals who are parties to such instruments * • •. "The argument in favor of the joint resolution as...contract restrict the exercise of a sovereign power. Rut the right to make binding obligations is a competence attaching to sovereignty • * *. "Having... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1960 - 140 pages
...the Metiopolis (15 Pet. 377, 390) except that the United .States cannot be sued without its consent. "The argument in favor of the joint resolution as...contract restrict the exercise of a sovereign power. Byt the right to make binding obligation^ it, a competence attaching to sovereignly. In the United... | |
| United States. Department of the Army - 1962 - 576 pages
...to lessen government expenditure, would be not the practice of economy, but an act of repudiation." The argument in favor of the Joint Resolution, as...obligations is a competence attaching to sovereignty. In the United States, sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - 1963 - 664 pages
...and proper for carrying the powers enumerated in the section into execution. It has been stated that "the right to make binding obligations is a competence attaching to sovereignty." Perry v. United States, 294 US 330, 353. Authority to assume obligations is also implicit in the powers... | |
| United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico - 1966 - 590 pages
...value. And when you quote the Supreme Court, you give emphasis to these words to our highest tribunal : "The argument in favor of the joint resolution, as applied to Government bonds, is in substance that Government cannot by contract restrict the exercise of a sovereign power." Do you distinguish or not,... | |
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