 Legislative power was exercised when Congress declared that the suspension should take effect upon a named contingency. What the President was required to do was simply in execution of the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere...  Harvard Law Review - Page 1271907Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 1132 pages
...his proclamation, in olH'dience to the legislative will, he exercised the function of making laws. Legislative power was exercised when Congress declared...that the suspension should take effect upon a named conlingencv. What the President was required to do was simply in execution of the Act of Congress.... | |
 | United States. Judge-Advocate-General's Department. War Department - 1898 - 204 pages
...the United States which, in his opinion, were reciprocally unequal or unreasonable. The court said : What the President was required to do was simply in...the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the law-making department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its... | |
 | Ezra Parmalee Prentice, John Garret Egan - 1898 - 470 pages
...ascertained the existence of this fact, it could not be said that he exercised the function of law-making. " What the President was required to do was simply in...the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the law-making department to ascer1 26 Stat L., pp. 567, 612. » 2 Stat L.... | |
 | Guido Norman Lieber - 1898 - 202 pages
...the United States which, in his opinion, were reciprocally unequal or unreasonable. The court said : What the President was required to do was simply in...the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the law-making department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its... | |
 | Emlin McClain - 1900 - 1126 pages
...issuing his proclamation, in obedience to the legislative will, he exercised the function of making laws. Legislative power was exercised when Congress declared...the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the lawmaking department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its... | |
 | Emlin McClain - 1900 - 1134 pages
...issuing his proclamation, in obedience to the legislative will, he exercised the function of making laws. , voluntarily strips itself of its sovereign character,...and waives all the privileges of that character. waa 1iet-the-niaking of law. He was the mere agent of the lawmakfng department to ascertain and declare... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 1504 pages
...exercised the function of making laws. Legislative power was exercised when Congress declared tbat tbe suspension should take effect upon a named contingency....the Act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the law making department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - 1902 - 850 pages
...issuing his proclamation, in obedience to the legislative will, he exercised the function of making laws. Legislative power was exercised when Congress declared...the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the law-making department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its... | |
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