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I. The War and the Constitution: President and Congress

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The chief lesson of the war to date for constitutional interpretation is that the Constitution is an easily dispensable factor of our war effort—perhaps one might say an “expendable” factor. That the Constitution is not needed as a source of national power for war purposes has been stated by the Court itself. Speaking in 1936 for himself and brethren in United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation, Justice Sutherland said: “The investment of the Federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution. The powers to declare and wage war [my italics], to conclude peace, to make treaties, to maintain diplomatic relations with other sovereignties, if they had never been mentioned in the Constitution, would have been vested in the Federal government as necessary concomitants of nationality” (299 U.S. 304, 318).

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  • Corwin, Edward S., 1943. "I. The War and the Constitution: President and Congress," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(1), pages 18-25, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:37:y:1943:i:01:p:18-25_04
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