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1 Charles Recht, American Deportation and Exclusion Laws [i] (1919)

handle is hein.immigration/adeortex0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AMERICAN DEPORTATION
AND EXCLUSION LAWS
A Report Submitted by Charles Recht, Counsel,
to the N. Y. Bureau of Legal Advice,
January 15, 1919

James Madison, arguing before the Virginia
Assembly in behalf of a resolution condemning the
Alien and Sedition Law of 1798 said:
Could a power be given in terms less definite,
less particular, and less precise? To be dangerous
to public safety, to be suspected of secret machina.
tions against the government, these can never be
mistaken for legal rules or certain definitions . . . . .
It is rightly affirmed, therefore, that the act unites
legislative and judicial powers to those of the ex-
ecutive . . . . .that this union of power subverts
the principle of free government . . . . . And it
must be wholly immaterial whether unlimited
powers be exercised under the name of unlimited
powers, or be exercised under the name of unlimited
means of carrying into execution limited powers.
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