Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn College's Professor Harry Slochower was an evasive, smart-aleck witness before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. When Slochower, teacher of German and literature and an authority on Thomas Mann, appeared before the subcommittee in 1952, he was asked, for example, if he could identify any members of...
"For example, the Tenth Amendment reserves to the states and the people powers not otherwise delegated to the Federal Government. Tested against that provision alone, it is possible that more than 30% of the treaties made by the U.S. since 1789 might be ruled invalid. Our basic treaties of friendship...
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...
The amendment seems simple. Its key sentence: "A provision of a treaty or other international agreement which conflicts with any provision of this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect."
In 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...