Word: brickering
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...John Bricker and his supporters prepared their arguments for presentation to the Senate. Hennings and other Bricker opponents readied themselves for concentrated study of the new proposal. One of the basic constitutional debates of this century was ready for its 1956 round...
Many Americans, led by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker, fear that the U.S. Constitution's treaty-making provision can be abused to violate the liberties of citizens. Bricker has proposed several amendments (TIME, July 13, 1953 et seq.) aimed at closing what he deems to be a dangerous constitutional loophole; in 1954, one version of the Bricker Amendment failed of Senate adoption by a single vote. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting n to 2, approved and sent to the Senate for action this year a new proposed treaty amendment to the Constitution. Its sponsor...
...their first studies of the new proposal, opponents of previous Bricker amendments thought they saw a danger in the three words, "any provision of." The test of a treaty's validity, they argued, should be in the Constitution as an organic whole instead of in its separate sections. Said Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings: "Under the Dirksen substitute, a provision of the Constitution could be torn from its context and used as the sole test of a treaty's validity. Furthermore, the proposed amendment would seem to apply to all existing as well as future...
...fight has just begun," John W. Bricker said when his proposed constitutional amendment met Senate defeat...
...party in two specific ways. First, he hopes to regain some of the lost party discipline on Capitol Hill and throughout the nation. His best weapon in this effort is the popularity of the President, who now numbers among his supporters some leaders, e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker, of the party's right wing...