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...JOHN W. BRICKER...
...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...
...lawyer who has spent a great deal of time studying the committee reports and attempting to form an objective opinion of the merits of the Bricker Amendment, I compliment TIME on an outstanding explanation of an important issue. The problem is a complex and difficult one. I didn't think it could be handled so well in two pages...