...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. "It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under...

...and secrecy wns one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...of members. To admit, then, a right in the House of IJepresentatives to demand and to have as a matter of course all the papers respecting a negotiation...

...power to withhold but the absence in the narrow premises of legislative power to demand. He denied "a right in the House of Representatives to demand,...papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign Power . . ." and he emphasized that he had no disposition to "withhold any information . . . which could...

...nnd secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...which that body was formed confining it, to a small numher of members. To admit, then, a right in the House of Representatives to demand and to have as...

...cogent reafon for veiling the power of making treaties in the Prefident, with the advice and confent of the Senate; the principle on which that body was formed confining it to a fmal! number of members. To admit then a right in the Houfe of Rcprefentatives to demand, and to have...

...eventual concessions which may have been proposed or contemplated would be extremely impolitic .... To admit, then, a right in the House of Representatives...Power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. 5 ANKALS or CONG. .760 (1795). , 42. 5 ANNALS or CONG. 760-61 (1796). President Washington further...

...eventual concessions which may have been proposed or contemplated would be extremely impolitic .... To admit, then, a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have, as a matter o{ course, all the papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign Power, would be to establish a dangerous...

...ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 35, p. 228 (1940). See note at No. 339 about the farewell address. 792 To admit then a right in the House of Representatives...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for, can be relative to any purpose under...

...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. Washington explained that "the boundaries fixed by the Constitution between the different departments...

...foreign negotiations, was one cogent reason for vesting the power in that manner." " That to admit a right in the house of representatives to demand,...power, -would be to establish a dangerous precedent." " That it being perfectly clear to his understand'ng, that the assent of the house of representatives...