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Fortunately, Vinson's was a minority view. If the court majority had upheld the steel seizure, with an argument based partly on treaties, the Bricker Amendment would be a lot further along than...
...prospect of reform-by-treaty, or revolution-by-treaty, a Seattle lawyer named Frank E. Holman, then president of the American Bar Association, set out five years ago on a crusade to save the Constitution by amending its treaty-power provisions. Among the allies he enlisted was Senator Bricker, who introduced his now-famed resolution in September 1951, and reintroduced it in the first days of the 83rd Congress...
...current form, after two major rewritings, the Bricker Amendment says: 1) "A provision of a treaty which conflicts with this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect." 2) "A treaty shall become effective as internal law in the United States only through legislation which would be valid in the absence of treaty...
...adopted by two-thirds of the Senate and of the House and three-fourths of the state legislatures, the Bricker Resolution would become the 23rd Amendment. By applying the tight restrictions of Section 2 to all treaties indiscriminately, the amendment would undo what the Constitution's framers so carefully wrote. By requiring legislation before any treaty provision would take effect as internal law,* it would seriously slow up the processing of many common types of treaties. The "which would be valid" clause, a return to the spirit of the Articles of Confederation, would make the Federal Government less than...
...first part of Section 3 of the Bricker Amendment would cut deep into the President's constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations. The executive branch now makes an average of 100 agreements a day in the NATO setup alone. If Congress started "regulating" that process, the U.S. would get no international business done...