Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...year later, testifying against the Bricker Amendment, Secretary Dulles said that though the treaty power was indeed "liable to abuse," it had not in fact been abused. The U.S. has made some unwise arrangements with foreign countries, but the Government's power to make domestic law by treaty has not led to grave oppression or any obvious violations of the Bill of Rights...
What alarms Bricker & Co. is the possibility that, in this era of statism and the reform-by-treaty urge, the U.S. might enter into treaties that sooner or later could be used to enlarge the power of the Federal Government or even to dilute or undermine the Bill of Rights. Says Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, a red-hot supporter of the Bricker Amendment: "We are in a new era of international organizations. They are grinding out treaties like so many eager beavers which will have effect on the rights of American citizens...
...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...