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Quote from Justice Arthur Goldberg,


"It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct
war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the
constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity
for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the
gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional
history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that
there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental
constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit
governmental action."


By:

Justice Arthur Goldberg (more quotes by Justice Arthur Goldberg or books by/about Justice Arthur Goldberg)


US Supreme Court Justice

Source:

Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 1963

Categories:

Congress, Constitution, Individual Rights, Law, Politics, Power, Rights, Safety, Security, Usurpation, War

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