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Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.
Robert H. Jacksonverified·Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (concurring)·June 2, 1952
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Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.
With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations.
While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government.
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