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...Bind the Man Down. At a nod from Vinson, John Davis strode forward to build his case against Harry Truman. Had the President seized the steel plants under authority of any statute? He had not. He had, in fact, declined to use the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress's remedy for heading off important labor-management disputes. "Having that weapon at hand, any effort on his part to forge a new and different weapon only aggravates the claim of usurpation which we are compelled to make. There was no statutory framework for this seizure. What then...
...gaze on the high, coffered ceiling, and softly quoted the words that Jefferson wrote in the Kentucky Resolutions, which in a sentence sums up the theory that public officials are servants of the law: "In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution...
...Fair Trade bill of Connecticut Democrat John A. McGuire, Sawyer testified that the law is necessary to protect smaller retailers from unfair competition. After his testimony, both the subcommittee and the full committee approved the bill. It would legalize the "non-signer" clause-i.e., permit a manufacturer to bind all retailers to the prices set in an agreement with any one of them...
Thirty-two states have no Presidential primaries at all. Only three states bind their convention delegates to a certain candidate, and in only one of these--Oregon--must the delegates vote for the man who wins the preferential primary. As a result, the party bosses make the real choice. Rather than nominating the people's choices, they usually offer only a choice between mediocrities...
Ties That Bind...