Nomination of William P. Rogers: Hearing, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on Nomination of William P. Rogers, of Maryand, to be Attorney General of the United States. January 22, 1958U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 33 |
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Strona 32 - This section does not authorize withholding information from the public or limiting the availability of records to the public.
Strona 5 - A legislative body cannot legislate wisely or effectively in the absence of information respecting the conditions which the legislation is intended to affect or change...
Strona 33 - fourth branch' of the Government, a haphazard deposit of irresponsible agencies and unco-ordinated powers. They do violence to the basic theory of the American Constitution that there should be three major branches of the Government and only three.
Strona 32 - It is also essential to the successful working of this system, that the persons entrusted with power in any one of these branches shall not be permitted to encroach upon the powers confided to the others, but that each shall by the law of its creation be limited to the exercise of the powers appropriate to its own department and no other.
Strona 8 - I direct this action so as to maintain the proper separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of the Government in accordance with my responsibilities and duties under the Constitution. This separation is vital to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power by any branch of the Government.
Strona 5 - All this was true before and when the Constitution was framed and adopted. In that period the power of inquiry, with enforcing process, was regarded and employed as a necessary and appropriate attribute of the power to legislate — indeed, was treated as inhering in it. Thus there is ample warrant for thinking, as we do, that the constitutional provisions which commit the legislative function to the two houses are intended to include this attribute to the end that the function may be effectively...
Strona 33 - The authority of Congress, in creating quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial agencies, to require them to act in discharge of their duties independently of executive control cannot well be doubted; and that authority includes, as an appropriate incident, power to fix the period during which they shall continue in office, and to forbid their removal except for cause in the meantime.
Strona 33 - Roosevelt addressed a letter to the commissioner asking for his resignation, on the ground "that the aims and purposes of the Administration with respect to the work of the Commission can be carried out most effectively with personnel of my own selection," but disclaiming any reflection upon the commissioner personally or upon his services.
Strona 10 - If anybody in an official position of this Government does anything which is an official act, and submits it either in the form of a recommendation or anything else, that is properly a matter for investigation if Congress so chooses, provided the national security is not involved. But when it comes to the conversations that take place between any responsible official and his advisers...
Strona 13 - ... to receive information of the categories set forth in subsection (a) of this section, by the President, or by the head of a department or agency of the United States Government which is expressly designated by the President to engage in communication intelligence activities for the United States.