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 would have advised the president to remain carefully and strictly within the bounds of his constitutional authority.
I believe that President Obama has, indeed, violated the Constitution with these appointments.
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