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is significant that Act No. 671 expressly limited the power of the President to
that continuing "in force" appropriations which would lapse or otherwise
become inoperative, so that, even assuming that the Act is still effective, it is
doubtful whether the President can by executive orders make new
appropriations.
4.
The specific power "to continue in force laws and appropriations which
would lapse or otherwise become inoperative" is a limitation on the general
power "to exercise such other powers as he may deem necessary to enable
the Government to fulfil its responsibilities and to maintain and enforce its
authority." Indeed, to hold that although the Congress has, for about seven
years since liberation, been normally functioning and legislating on every
conceivable field, the President still has any residuary powers under the Act,
would necessarily lead to confusion and overlapping, if not conflict.
5. The framers of the Constitution, however, had the vision of and were
careful in allowing delegation of legislative powers to the President for a
limited period "in times of war or other national emergency." They had thus
entrusted to the good judgment of the Congress the duty of coping with any
national emergency by a more efficient procedure; but it alone must decide
because emergency in itself cannot and should not create power. In our
democracy the hope and survival of the nation lie in the wisdom and
unselfish patriotism of all officials and in their faithful adherence to the
Constitution.