Department of Justice Authorization for Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1992: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 11 and 18, 1991, الجزء 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 177 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 96 - States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the president of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall by law be...
الصفحة 124 - ... countenance for its support in any part of the constitution; and is asserting a principle, which, if carried out in its results, to all cases falling within it would be clothing the President with a power entirely to control the legislation of congress, and paralyze the administration of justice. To contend that the obligation imposed on the President to see the laws faithfully executed, implies a power to forbid their execution, is a novel construction of the constitution, and entirely inadmissible.
الصفحة 109 - The scope of the power of inquiry, in short, is as penetrating and far-reaching as the potential power to enact and appropriate under the Constitution.
الصفحة 109 - ... the administration of the Department of Justice — whether its functions were being properly discharged or were being neglected or misdirected, and particularly whether the Attorney General and his assistants were performing or neglecting their duties in respect of the institution and prosecution of proceedings to punish crimes and enforce appropriate remedies against the wrongdoers — specific instances of alleged neglect being recited.
الصفحة 124 - The duty of the President to see that the laws be executed is a duty that does not go beyond the laws or require him to achieve more than Congress sees fit to leave within his power.
الصفحة 124 - The President of the United States cannot control the statute, nor dispense with its execution, and still less can he authorize a person to do what the law forbids.
الصفحة 96 - And there shall also be appointed a meet person learned in the law, to act as attorney general for the United States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office, whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the president of the United States...
الصفحة 101 - This latter relation, that of the departments to Congress, is one of the great elements of responsibility and legality in their action. They are created by law ; most of their duties are prescribed by law; Congress may at...
الصفحة 31 - The power of the Congress to conduct investigations is inherent in the legislative process. That power is broad. It encompasses inquiries concerning the administration of existing laws as well as proposed or possibly needed statutes.
الصفحة 31 - It encompasses inquiries concerning the administration of existing laws as well as proposed or possibly needed statutes. It includes surveys of defects in our social, economic or political system for the purpose of enabling the Congress to remedy them. It comprehends probes into departments of the Federal Government to expose corruption, inefficiency or waste.