Word: brickering
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...Bricker Amendment...
Your generally fair and objective discussion of "The Bricker Amendment" [TIME, July 13] contains several inaccuracies...
Your article refers to the motion of Gouverneur Morris, defeated in the Constitutional Convention, providing that no treaty would be binding "which is not ratified by law." That was not the "Bricker Amendment" of 1787. It was the part of wisdom to vote it down, because Morris' motion was applicable to all treaties. My amendment requires congressional implementation only of those treaties that become effective as "internal law," and to that extent alone. The very first section of the Constitution reads...
...change ran into some hot Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...
...arrangement the authors rejected in 1787, voting down a motion-the Bricker Amendment of its day-that no treaty would be binding "which is not ratified...