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While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government.

Robert H. Jacksonverified·Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (concurring)·June 2, 1952

Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.

Robert H. Jacksonverified·Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (concurring)·June 2, 1952