It looks like the Act was signed on June 25, 1948 after Congress adjourned on June 20, 1948 until Dec. 31, 1948, met for special joint session July 27, 1948 and adjourned August 7, 1948
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It looks like the Act was signed on June 25, 1948 after Congress adjourned on June 20, 1948 until Dec. 31, 1948, met for special joint session July 27, 1948 and adjourned August 7, 1948
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Yep. Truman called 'em back for some sort of emergency. I know of no emergency at the federal level then. I think he called 'em back to give 'em the opportunity to call him on his action. When they didn't call him out a new pecking order was established with the pres on top.
here is the timetable from the certified copies from the archives:
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There is nothing either the House nor the Senate can do AFTER the presidents' unconstitutional act. I believe there is a prohibition on EX POST FACTO type legislation.
Look at it this way. Say your wife leaves your bed and board on August 1st. You wait till the end of December to put a legal notice out that "I will not be responsible for her debt beginning August 1st". Doesn't fly 'cause the public only had notice of the separation at the end of December. Therefore YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER DEBTS FROM AUG 1ST TO THE END OF DECEMBER. Now your notice might be used to pull the wool over some merchants' eyes but just because you put out a notice doesn't mean it is all true.
Ok, after spending the day trying to find the actual day President Truman signed the Judiciary and Judicial Procedure Act I found nothing but this,
https://www.archives.gov/federal-reg...aws/about.html
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Public Law Listings
- The current list is updated as soon as public laws become available.
When a bill is signed into law by the President it is sent to the Office of the Federal Register to be assigned a law number and paginated for the United States Statutes at Large. Afterwards, a List of Public Laws is created, posted online, and then published in the Federal Register.
The list is arranged by law number and includes:
- Bill number
- Public Law Number
- Name of Act
- Approval date
- U.S. Statutes at Large page citation
It is not only conceivable, but highly likely the bill was signed while Congress was in session and made its way throught the beaurocratic process and was put in the Statutes at Large on June 25, 1948 5 days after Congress had adjourned.
In the upper right hand margin notes there are the approval date (approved by whom?), the bill number and the public law number.
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Look at the Senate congressional record (found in Dennis's documents on Adasks site)
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Notice the keyword SUBSEQUENT ... the first word. It means AFTER the senate left in this instance.
I searched throught that list and was unable to find H. R. 3214. But the copy is blurry and hard to read. It may be there.
This is the clearest copy of the Senate Comgressional Records on adask's site
https://adask.wordpress.com/2011/06/...page-document/
I still am not able to find H. R. 3214 in the two pages from the Senate listed as Exhibits E & F
and that is what compelled me to try and find a definite signing date on the internet. Until I can see it with my own eyes I am suspect.
Here is exhibit F
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Other exhibits are to document the date congress adjourned and for other material facts.