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...Long in the President's chair might utilize it to subvert most things that free men call desirable. But Professor Commager notes that over the course of the years legislatures have generally had their way. The Supreme Court has often declared a law unconstitutional only to have the sovereign people cancel out the "judicial nullification" by amendment, or by new law, or by judicial reversal obtained by the appointment of new judges, or by political pressure from the White House...
...Sovereign Responsibility. The U.S., Great Britain, the U.S.S.R. and China had accepted, in principle, their responsibility for setting up and backing some kind of international organization after the war. The responsibility would be all the heavier, the task all the harder because the Big Four had pledged themselves to preserve the "sovereign equality" of all member nations, large or small. If that term was to have real meaning, the job could not be done with a big stick. In effect the big nations, including the U.S., would have to underwrite the security and dignity of the little nations...
...general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security, will be established at the earliest practicable date...
...Resolution: "That the war against all our enemies be waged until complete victory is achieved; that the U.S. cooperate with its comrades in arms in securing a just and honorable peace; that the U.S. acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world...
...inner frontiers of Asia. That peace had been achieved by a diplomatic feat as great as any in Chinese history, as significant as the abolition of extraterritoriality by the U.S. and Britain. It meant the practical recognition by the U.S.S.R. of China's status as a sovereign equal...