...because it is an "insurrection." ' Whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as Commander-in Chief in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such...governed by the decisions and acts of the political departments of the Governments to which this power was entrusted. He must determine what degree of...

...authorized a recourse to such a measure under the circumstances peculiar to the case. The question whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as...belligerents, is a question to be decided by him. He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands. The court was of the opinion that the President...

...authorized a recourse to such a measure under the circumstances peculiar to the case. The question whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as...belligerents, is a question to be decided by him. He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands. The court was of the opinion that the President...

...In the opinion in these cases, Mr. Justice GRIER, speaking for a majority of the court, says : — " Whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as...character of belligerents, is a question to be decided hy him, and this court must be governed by the decisions and acts of the political department of the...

...peculiar to the case. The question whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as Cornmander-in-Chief in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such...belligerents, is a question to be decided by him. He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands. The conrt was of the opinion that the President...

...because it is an insurrection ! " Whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as commander in-chief, in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such...character of belligerents, is a question to be decided ~by Mm, and this court must be governed by the decisions and acts of the political department of the government...

...670.) In the opinion in those cases, Mr. Justice Grier, speaking for a majority of the Court, says : " Whether the President, in fulfilling his duties, as...and this Court must be governed by the decisions and Semmes v. The City Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. acts of the political department of the Government...

...as command- President must er-in-chief in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such the1 enem armed hostile resistance, and a civil war of such...as will compel him to accord to them the character gentes, converts every citizen of the hostile State into a public enemy, and treats him accordingly,...

...the same judgment he added : Whether the President, in fulfilling his dnties as commauder-in-chief in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such...decided by him ; and this court must be governed by the decision ч and acts of the political department of the Government to which this power was intrusted....

...traitors, in order to dismember and destroy it, is not a war because it is an * insurrection.' •* Whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as...character of belligerents, is a question to be decided by Mm,.and this court must be governed by the decisions and acts of the political departments of the governments...