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...What then?" he repeated rhetorically. "There can be only one other source of power under which seizure can be deduced -the Constitution." Like a preacher reciting Holy Writ, Davis listed the presidential powers granted in Article II of the Constitution. When he came to the passage charging the President with faithful execution of the laws, he looked up sharply. "What must he take care that he execute faithfully? The laws. He cannot himself proclaim the law and then execute it. The masters of the law are the members of Congress...
Arbitrary Act? In time, the government returned to the Petaccis most of Clara's tangible assets, but the letters and diaries it claimed as documents of state. Writ followed court writ as the Petaccis tried to reclaim their property. Italy's best jurists pulled their chins over the puzzling problem of whether or not a dictator's mistress "carries out functions which can be compared to those of a public official." Last week the Petacci lawyers filed what they hoped was a final brief. "It is absurd," they said, "as argued by the state, that the loves...
There was no question that past Presidents, in time of crisis, have stretched their vaguely defined constitutional powers. When defense production was threatened in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt seized aircraft and shipbuilding companies. A famous example was Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in the Civil War. "My oath to preserve the Constitution," he explained later, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government, that Nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
...protest to this action, Billings decided to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. His efforts were unsuccessful...
...captain at the fort, realizing his plight, got copies of the briefs, which the lawyers had never even shown Billings. Finding the Army's case "shot full of holes," he decided to apply for a writ of certiorari that would bring the situation before the United States Supreme Court...