"You may think that the Constitution is your security--it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security--they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security--it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery."
-- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 1940
Congress subsequently passed a public law ratifying President Roosevelt’s executive order with no deliberation.
-- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 1940
Congress subsequently passed a public law ratifying President Roosevelt’s executive order with no deliberation.
SOURCE: National Archives