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...Senator Bricker and those who support his proposed Constitutional amendment burrow into the basic law, they commit the United States to perpetual international conservatism. Bricker's proposal to limit presidential powers of treaty and agreement would hamstring our future in world government and injure immediate cooperation with allied nations...
Fearing betrayal of citizens' rights, Bricker would protect them from encroachments by presidential treaty or agreement. He would further forbid cession of governmental duties to any supra-national body. Ratified treaties would always require a second approval by Congress to become law. And full-blown treaties would replace the more informal executive agreements...
...amendment, so say its backers, would guarantee civil rights by specifically hoisting the Constitution above treaty law. In ending the executive agreement, which is a formal understanding not submitted for ratification, Bricker hopes to safeguard the public weal from presidential barter...
...nominee of both parties. Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler and ex-Governor Dwight Griswold were easy winners. Vermont's Ralph Flanders, North Dakota's William Langer, Minnesota's Edward Thye and New York's Irving Ives had no trouble. In Ohio, mellifluous John Bricker easily defeated wisecracking Mike DiSalle, former U.S. price boss...
...defeat Bricker, DiSalle must lure Ohio's large floating vote back into the Democratic fold. The vote floats fast--Truman carried the state by a whisker in 1948, and two years later Taft rolled up a 431,000 majority over Joe Ferguson to win his Senate seat. If Taft's margin reflected more his opponent's mediocrity than his own popularity, DiSalle has a chance. But if anything, Taft seems to be idolized in Ohio even more now than two years ago. Cloaked in Taft's prestige, Bricker has a better than even chance of victory...