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...treaty. "It would in fact turn into a treaty of war," he said. "And war needs no treaties; in war, cannons are needed." Arriving at Andrews Air Force Base 14 hours later, he remained just as stern as ever. Said Begin: "We cannot be pressed into signing a sham document...
Administration supporters within the committee mobilized against the draft. Senator John Glenn, chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, declared that such a document would be "offensive to the People's Republic." After a visit to the White House, Church said he did not endorse the draft but simply wanted to get a discussion under way. Church, Javits and Glenn then began talking of a compromise. Their solution: the U.S. "will maintain its capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion" against Taiwan, and will provide the island with "a sufficient self-defense...
This attack on the warhorse of liberals' economic policy is undoubtedly what has inspired their overstated attack against a national convention-- that it might create a constitutional mess, or even run amuck and try to rewrite the entire document. An Article V convention would face a variety of procedural problems, and the Constitution leaves the details fuzzy, but the founding fathers would not have included the option if they never meant anyone to use it. The legal issues are thorny but not unresolvable; opponents of a balanced-budget amendment should rely on the merits of their argument against the amendment...
...cannot be limited to a specific agenda. Ackerman says that no one has the power to limit a convention's agenda, and no one ought to; he apparently believes the drafters of the Constitution intended the convention clause for the next time Americans wanted to rewrite their governing document. His position depends almost entirely on Article V's statement that the convention will be for the purpose of "proposing amendments." But this is a semantic technicality; if the Constitution had read in the singular, it would prohibit conventions from proposing multiple amendments like the Bill of Rights or the Civil...
...have fallen into unrealistic and Utopian notions"). The bishops condemned the "national security" ideologies that undergird most of Latin America's military regimes for leading "to the abuse of power and violation of human rights," but they also denounced leftist terrorism. Echoing the Pope's address, the document cautions priests to "divest themselves of all political ideology." But it does advocate Christian action. Said the bishops: "We ask all Christians to collaborate in the changing of unjust structures and to communicate gospel values to the entire culture where we live...