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4 7 sos ‘ 4 Wumerous detisions of the United States Su, Dine Court, | morcover, have indicated that the President, as Chief Rxecutive, possesses powers in forcign and mifitary affairs which are not dependent on a specific legislative grant but derive from the ] Constitution itself, These decisions have also indicated that the Court holds great respect for these powers and that only with extreme ‘care will it interfere with them. ~~ - Y In Marbury v. Madison the Court commented: "By the Constitution. , .the President is invested with certain political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his _ own conscience." In 1863, the Supreme Court in the Prize Cases went on to uphold the President's authority to blockade insurrectionary Southern ports without Congressional authorization, In 1915, the Supreme Court in Mackenzic Vv. Hare explained that the Federal judiciary should be slow to curtail such powers, 5 In United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., decided by the Supreme Court in 1936, the Court again commented upon the President's powers in the area of foreign affairs,. It explained that there is a oO significant difference between the conduct of domestic, as opposedto foreign affairs, and stated that the Government's powers in the area of internal affairs are limited fo those specifically enumerated in the Constitution. In the area of foreign affairs, however, the powers of the