United States against CurtissWright Export Corporation. one which is destined to be famous in our law: "As a member of the family of nations. the right and power of the United States in that field arL equal to the right and power of the other members of the international family. Otherwise. the United States is not completely sovereign. The power to acquire territory by discovery and occupation. the power to expel undesirable aliens. the power to make such international agreements as do not constitute treaties in the constitutional sense. none of which is expressly affirmed by the Constitution. nevertheless exist as inherently inseparable from the conception of nationality. This the Court recognized. and in each of the cases cited found the warrant for its conclusions not in the provisions of the Constitution. but in the law of the Nation." In a wellknown work by Edward S. Corwin. page 40. the following language is used: But though neither Congress nor the courts may direct the President in the discharge of his constitutional powers. yet either the Senate or the House separately. or both concurrently. may pass resolutions expressive of their desires in relation to questions of an international character. and the President may give such resolutions any weight he chooses. notwithstanding that they have no legal effect.
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