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Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1918-01-07

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Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court. We are here concerned with some of the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76 , entitled, “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.” The law, as its opening sentence declares, was i…

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