Download or read book The War Powers of the President, Military Arrests, Reconstruction of the Union (Classic Reprint) written by William Whiting and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The War Powers of the President, Military Arrests, Reconstruction of the Union It is not denied that the powers given to the various depart ments of government are in general limited and defined; nor is it to be forgotten that the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. (const. Amendment, Art. X.) But the powers claimed for the President and for Congress, in this essay, are believed to be delegated to them respectively under the constitution, expressly or by neces sary implication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.