there is no support for a reading of the Constitution that unnecessarily restricts the political arrangements available to the President and Congress in fashioning binding consensual solutions to the Nation's relations with the people of its territories.
Cooper emphasizes the flexibility of political arrangements for U.S. territories under the Constitution.
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This idea that it is the President that has to be satisfied that you are in session is a very dangerous notion.
I think the history of the clause, and the recess appointment clause, makes clear that this was a fundamental check on executive power.
much of the problem in this area has been Congress' inability really to focus and answer difficult political public policy questions.
It is Congress's responsibility, its constitutional responsibility, to resist this constitutional excess of his authority.
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