War Powers Act of 1941

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The War Powers Act of 1941 was a World War II-era U.S. law that granted President Franklin D. Roosevelt broad emergency authority to reorganize the executive branch and mobilize the nation’s resources for war.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal statute
emergency powers legislation
aimedAt centralization of administrative authority in the executive branch
rapid mobilization of the U.S. economy for war
allowedAction allocation of materials and facilities for national defense
control of certain contracts and procurement for war production
creation of new executive agencies
reorganization of executive agencies
transfer of functions among executive agencies
appliesDuring national emergency related to World War II
wartime emergency
appliesTo United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
beneficiary United States Armed Forces
surface form: United States armed forces

United States war production effort
context Declaration of war on Japan
surface form: United States entry into World War II
country United States of America
surface form: United States
enactedDuringConflict World War II
grantedPowerTo President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of the United States
hasConsequence expansion of federal administrative agencies during World War II
strengthening of presidential control over wartime administration
hasLanguage English
historicalPeriod World War II home front
surface form: World War II home front in the United States
influenced later debates on executive war powers in the United States
isDistinctFrom U.S. War Powers Resolution
surface form: War Powers Resolution of 1973
jurisdiction federal law of the United States
legalArea emergency powers
executive authority
war powers
legislativeBody United States Congress
passedBy United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
presidentAtEnactment President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt
purpose to grant the U.S. president broad emergency authority during World War II
to mobilize national resources for war
to reorganize the executive branch for wartime needs
regulates allocation of government resources for national defense
organization of the executive branch during wartime
relatedTo United States home front during World War II
United States war mobilization
expansion of presidential power
signedBy President Franklin D. Roosevelt
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt
subjectOf historical studies of U.S. World War II mobilization
legal scholarship on presidential war powers
typeOfPowerGranted temporary emergency powers

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77th United States Congress passedLegislation War Powers Act of 1941
77th United States Congress passedLegislation War Powers Act of 1941
this entity surface form: Second War Powers Act
United States home front during World War II legislation War Powers Act of 1941
this entity surface form: Second War Powers Act
Second War Powers Act of 1942 relatedTo War Powers Act of 1941
this entity surface form: First War Powers Act of 1941