If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.


Dissenting, Priebe and Sons v. United States, 332 U.S. 407, 420 (1947). - Judicial opinions

Felix Frankfurter Quotes

If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from...

If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from...

If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from...

If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from...