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...Constitution? President Eisenhower's declaration led to an obvious case in point: the controversial Bricker amendment to curtail his treaty-making powers (TIME, Jan. 18), which has brought his Administration to the brink of open warfare with Congress. Defending his opposition to the amendment, Ike went back to the Constitutional Convention and put a question to the reporters: Why was the Constitution formed to replace the old Articles of Confederation? Then he answered his own question...
President Eisenhower was willing to swallow broad compromises for the Bricker amendment, but-and here the President leaned forward with his hands flat on his desk and spoke with utter earnestness-when you come down to this, that we have to go right back to the general system that prevailed before our Constitution was adopted, then he certainly never shall agree...
...amendment specifies that no treaty shall become the law of the land until both houses of Congress have passed enabling legislation. Bricker wants Congress to determine which treaties require enabling legislation; the Administration insists that the President must have the power to decide...
Dedicated Man. John Bricker's mood is one of dauntless dedication. He is willing to search for a compromise, if he can find one that suits his conscience. But he complains that the Administration does not really know its own mind. "It's my Administration," he says. "It's a Republican Administration. I want to get along with them. But they don't seem to want to understand the issue. They haven't advanced one cogent argument against the principles of the resolution...
Bill Knowland is duty bound to call up the Bricker amendment for action in the Senate in the first weeks of the session. If no compromise can be reached with Bricker by then, the Administration has two fearsome choices: 1) tight-lipped acceptance of defeat, and all that it may mean in crippling the operation of U.S. foreign affairs; 2) a wide-open fight between wings of the Republican Party, with subsequent peril to the Administration's legislative program...