Tag: AP
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Appellate Jurisdiction
Appellate JurisdictionIn Wiscart v. D'Auchy,1 the issue was whether the statutory authorization for the Supreme Court to review on writ of error circuit court decisions in "civil actions" gave it power to review admiralty cases.1171 A m…
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Appointment of Referees
Appointment of Referees, Masters, and Special AidsThe administration of insolvent enterprises, investigations into the reasonableness of public utility rates, and the performance of other judicial functions often require the special services of masters in chancery, referees, auditors, and other spec…
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Appoint
"Appoint"The word "appoint" as used in Clause 2 confers on state legislatures "the broadest power of determination." 1 Upholding a state law providing for selection of electors by popular vote from districts rather than …
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Appropriated Funds
Impoundment of Appropriated FundsIn his Third Annual Message to Congress, President Jefferson established the first faint outline of what years later became a major controversy. Reporting that $50,000 in funds which Congress had appropriated for fifteen gunboats on the Mississippi remained unexpende…
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Apportionment
Apportionment of Seats In the House of Representatives[Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including tho…
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Appropriations
Appropriations of Public MoneyThe restriction on drawing money from the Treasury "was intended as a restriction upon the disbursing authority of the Executive department," and "means simply that no money can be paid out of the Treasury unless it has been appropriated by an act of Cong…
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Appropriations for the Army
Time Limit on Appropriations for the ArmyPrompted by the fear of standing armies to which Story alluded, the framers inserted the limitation that "no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years." In 1904, the question arose whether this provision would be v…