Price v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. “The 1916 act was more than a recognition. It was a temporary absorption of the units that wére taken. In order to avoid any possible constitutional question as to their use beyond continental borders, the act did not stop with recognition. It ripped the sack wide open, lifted the strands of the National Guard bodily and wove the component threads into the warp and woof of the Regular Army. For the period of such use they were no longer National Guard units, but an integral part of the Army of the United States. 100 F.Supp. at 317 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Powell