We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in officers and men, and that in arranging the officers from the old to the new corps full power was granted to the President to take them from any and every corps of the former establishment and place them in the latter.
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This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.
According to my judgment it cannot be derived from either of those powers, nor from all of them united, and in consequence it does not exist.
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