This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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