Excerpt from Remarks on the Army Regulations and Executive Regulations in General The words regulate and regulation are used in several places in the Constitution of the United States. Thus, Congress has power to "regulate" commerce, to "regulate" the value of money, to make rules for the government and "regulation" of the land and naval forces, to make "regulations" with regard to the elections of Senators and Representatives, to make "regulations" with reference to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain cases, and to make needful rules and "regulations" respecting the territory and other property of the United States. In all these cases regulation is legislation. By virtue of its power to make rules and regulations for the land and naval forces, Congress covers a large field of legislation relating to the administration of military affairs. When this is done, there, however, remains a mass of matters appertaining to the military establishment, which it is necessary to "regulate" 'Legislation can not enter into all the details of this regulation, and, if it could, it would not be desirable, because a legislative code, controlling the whole subject of military administration, would not have the necessary elasticity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.