Dryfoos v. Edwards

(after stating the facts as above). The War-Time Prohibition Act was passed on November 21, 1918, 10 days after the acceptance of the terms imposed by the Allies upon the German government and when the Empire had fallen. The circumstances were then such as made patent to every one that successful hostilities could not be resumed, and, as the President declared to Congress a few weeks later, the war had come to an end. If, therefore, the war powers of Congress were dependent upon the prosecution of further hostilities in the field, they had ceased. However, no one urges that this was the cáse.…