Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirds of the Senators present concur." Thus treaty provisions can, without legislation, become internal law, enforceable on individual citizens and overriding conflicting laws, both state and federal. If a treaty provision is not enforceable as it stands, Congress has the power under Article I to make "necessary and proper" laws to put it into effect...
...interpreted by the Supreme Court, Article VI means that treaty provisions, or "necessary and proper" laws based on the treaties, can regulate matters that the Constitution otherwise reserves to the states and the people. After federal courts had declared a 1913 migratory-bird protection law invalid on the ground that it violated the Tenth Amendment ("The powers not delegated ... are reserved . . ."), the U.S. and Canada agreed by treaty to protect birds that flew between the two countries. Then Congress passed a law similar to the 1913 law. In 1920, in the famous Missouri v. Holland decision, the Supreme Court upheld...
...throw a monkey wrench into the country's foreign-relations machinery. There is no need for safeguards against such treaties as the Human Rights Covenant, said Dulles, because the Administration does "not intend to become a party to any such covenant"-or to other treaties outside the "proper field" of international relations...
...literary critics adopted Marxism. And what we are witnessing now is the complete discrediting of Marxism in all its forms-Bolshevik or Menshevik, extreme or moderate, academic or practical. And with this obstacle removed, the group who used to be called 'the intellectuals' quite naturally resume their proper position in the [British] national life as men who can influence, but not dominate, the development of the public taste and the course of public affairs...
PROFESSIONAL CLASSES: "The intelligentsia is not respected in the proper way, especially those who belonged to this class before the war. We insisted on university or high-school education in an exaggerated way. We have to be more modest in this respect and not build castles...