War Powers, Libya, and State-sponsored Terrorism: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, April 29, May 1 and 15, 1986U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 382 עמודים |
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Achille Lauro acts of terrorism administration American anti-terrorist antiterrorism approval April 14 attack authority bill bombing Chairman FASCELL circumstances combat Commander in Chief committed compliance conduct congressional leaders constitutional consult with Congress consultation provision consultation requirement counterterrorism Court decision declaration defense deployment discussion executive branch exercise Forces into hostilities Foreign Affairs foreign policy going gress Gulf of Sidra HYDE imminent hostilities imminent involvement intelligence committees Intelligence Oversight Act involvement in hostilities issue leadership Lebanon legislative Libya March 24 Members of Congress military action military force possible Powers Act Powers Resolution President Reagan President's prior consultation problem Qaddafi question response REVELEY role secrecy self-defense Senate situations where imminent specific state-sponsored terrorism statement strike subcommittee terrorist threat tion U.S. Armed Forces U.S. forces United States Armed War Powers Act War Powers Resolution White House
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עמוד 163 - It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first general and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies — all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.
עמוד 382 - In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad.
עמוד 277 - If a war be made by invasion of a foreign nation, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority.
עמוד 319 - Council is to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security...
עמוד 350 - United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances...
עמוד 319 - to assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States in relation to our actual and potential military power...
עמוד 277 - Whether the president in fulfilling his duties, as commander-in-chief, in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistance, and a civil war of such alarming proportions as will compel him to accord to them the character of belligerents, is a question to be decided by him, and this court must be governed by the decision and acts of the political department of the government to which this power was entrusted. 'He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands.
עמוד 127 - Secondly, the president is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the King of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces...