...insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistance, and a civil war of such alarming proportions as will compel him to accord to them the character of...the Government to which this power was entrusted."). [191] Wat 12 (citing 71 US (4. Wall.) at 131). [192] See 71 US (4 Wall.) at 131 (suggesting that only...

...decision to impose the naval blockade without congressional sanction. Grier's statement that this was "a question to be decided by him, and this Court must...acts of the political department of the Government" provides a concise definition of what later became known as the "political question" doctrine. The...

...The Court did not question the merits of his decision, but stated it must leave such an evaluation to "the political department of the Government to which this power was entrusted." Id. Quirin had decided that the President could detain American citizens without trial if they associate...

...insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistance, and a civil war of such alarming proportions as will compel him to accord to them the character of...the Government to which this power was entrusted. . . . The proclamation of blockade is itself official and conclusive evidence to the Court that a state...

...insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistance and a civil war of such alarming proportions as will compel him to accord to them the character of...be decided by him, and this court must be governed l> v the decisions and acts of the political department of the Government, to which this power wax...

...insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistence, and a civil war of such alarming proportions as will compel him to accord to them the character of belligerents, is a question to he decided by him, and this court must be governed by the decisions and acts of the Political Department...