Still, the current administration would do well to heed Jackson's admonition in Korematsu: that in seeking a balance between liberty and security, no court, and no president, should "distort the Constitution to approve all that the military may deem expedient".
Haupt wired immediately for clarification; Stanton's May 28 reply named Haupt "Chief of Construction and Transportation in the Department of the Rappahannock … authorized to do whatever you may deem expedient to open for use in the shortest possible time all Military Railroads".
Stanton also concurred with the need for a standing body of trained civilian construction workers, authorizing Haupt "to form a permanent corps of artificers, organized, officered, and equipped in such manner as you may prescribe … to employ civilians and foremen and assistants, under such rules and rates of compensation as you may deem expedient".
In New Jersey it has been held that within the limits prescribed by the state Constitution, the Legislature may delegate to municipalities such portion of political power as they may deem expedient, withholding other powers, and may withdraw any part of that which has been delegated.
It rests with congress to say whether, in a given case, any of the people resident in the territory shall participate in the election of its officers or the making of its laws; and it may, therefore, take from them any right of suffrage it may previously have conferred, or at any time modify or abridge it, as it may deem expedient.
Otherwise the general power, given by § 24, to declare such dividends as the company deems expedient, remains in force.
The clause is much less well known than, say, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and yet Congress's power under it, Justice Scalia wrote, "is paramount, and may be exercised at any time, and to any extent which [Congress] deems expedient".
The power of Congress, as we have seen, is paramount, and may be exercised at any time, and to any extent which it deems expedient, and so far as it is exercised, and no farther, the regulations effected supersede those of the State which are inconsistent therewith.
The general manufacturing act of 1809 contained a provision that the legislature might from time to time, upon due notice to any corporation, make further provisions and regulations for the management of the business of the corporation and for the government thereof, or wholly to repeal any act or part thereof establishing any corporation, as should be deemed expedient.
On Tuesday the finance minister, who detailed the drive in a letter to eurozone leaders, said he hoped the EU would wrap up negotiations over a second rescue package of emergency loans – now deemed expedient if Athens is to stave off economic collapse – by the end of August, before it receives its next tranche of emergency aid on 15 September.
Higher education policy has been mired in the deep fissures within the coalition, a victim of the opposition's veering between tactical point-scoring and strategic repositioning, and beset by an unusual distance between what is said freely, but confidentially, in private and what is deemed expedient to admit in public.
