...potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question." 1. A textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...of the issue to a coordinate political department. At issue here is the phrase in Art. I, §8, cl. 11: "To declare War." Congress definitely has that...

...that doctrine, the Supreme Court in Baker v. Carr, 369 US, at 217, stated that the key criterion is "a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...of the issue to a coordinate political department." The task of investigating and disciplining a member of the Senate, which plaintiff petitions this Court...

...cases and the "foreign relations" cases are explicable in terms of constitutional interpretation, ie, "a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department"738 or whether they turn on considerations that run be730 369 US at 211. Professor Jaffe...

...JM r •" -- "prominent on the surface" of a political question case. They bear restatement: ' [1] a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...of the issue to a coordinate political department; [2] or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; [3] or the impossibility...

..."inextricable from the case at bar."42 Baker v. Carr, supra, at 217. In other words, whether there is a "textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...of the issue to a coordinate political department" of government and what is the scope of such commitment are questions we must resolve for the first...

..."political question." "prominent on the surface" of a political question case. They bear restatement: ' [1] a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...of the issue to a coordinate political department; [2] or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; [3] or the impossibility...

...textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; [2] or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; [3] or the impossibility of decidingwithout an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial...

...separation of powers. Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjndicial discretion ; or the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without...

...separation of powers. Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudieial discretion ; or the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without...

...to the first decisional factor listed in Baker v. Carr, supra. This is the inquiry "whether there is a 'textually demonstrable constitutional commitment...of the issue to a coordinate political department' of government and what is the scope of such commitment." 395 US at 521. To this critical factor of...