Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Melvin R. Laird, Etc.

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• where Executive and Legislative Branches act together, the constitutional provivision that Congress shall have power to declare war has not been breached
• where Executive and Legislative Branches act together, the constitutional provivision that Congress shall have power to declare war has not been breached
• the President has “power as Commander-in- Chief to station forces abroad”
• “[t]he executive may without Congressional participation repel attack”
• but cf. Mitchell v. Laird, supra
• but cf. Mitchell v. Laird, supra

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).