Tuesday, March 10, 2015

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.

This is the Supreme Court case which declared that the executive branch has supremacy over foreign affairs.

- Click here for the Wikipedia entry.

note that it is the Supreme Court which clarifies the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

The majority decision was written by George Sutherland, one of the conservative Four Horsemen who consistently ruled against the constitutionality of the New Deal.