For the first time in its 163 years of constitutional government, the U.S. seemed headed for a decision by its Supreme Court on the limits of a President's power. Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills had raised the issue. A forthright judgment by Federal District Judge David A. Pine had brought the issue to a head. Whatever the Supreme Court's ruling, Judge Pine's decision came as a sharp check to the persistent expansion of presidential powers which beganand was warmly welcomed by most of the U.S.in the early days of the...
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