"The very foundation of the government is gone. After today no man can tell just what are the powers of the President and Congress.
"Yesterday we supposed we had a government of specified limited powers. Today, no one knows."
So said Justice James Clark McReynolds, "one of the most detached, most solitary, least worldly men in public life," when a majority of his fellows of the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the power of the President to remove post-masters and other statutory Federal officials. This vital decision was made last week in a suit...
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