Limitations on the Treaty-making Power Under the Constitution of the United StatesThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2000 - 444 páginas Tucker, Henry St. George. Limitations on the Treaty-Making Power Under the Constitution of the United States. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. xxi, 444 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-31589. ISBN 1-58477-015-5. Cloth. $75. * An interpretation of relevant cases and the opinions of legislators and judges to support Tucker's argument for strict limitations on treaty-making power. With table of cases and index. Tucker [1853-1932], a congressman from Virginia, was the grandson of Henry St. George Tucker, author of Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia. In Congress he was known for his opposition to women's suffrage and his support of states rights. |
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... Continental Congress it is needless to inquire . The state- ment in the Declaration of Independence did not clothe them with these powers , it was merely the declaration of what already existed ; and when the representatives of each ...
... Continental Congress it is needless to inquire . The state- ment in the Declaration of Independence did not clothe them with these powers , it was merely the declaration of what already existed ; and when the representatives of each ...
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... Continental Congress . Whom did this Congress represent ? And what powers did it possess to make the Articles of Confederation binding upon the States ? If we regard the Continental Congress as a mere committee of safety whose delegates ...
... Continental Congress . Whom did this Congress represent ? And what powers did it possess to make the Articles of Confederation binding upon the States ? If we regard the Continental Congress as a mere committee of safety whose delegates ...
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... Continental Congress without authority , their ratification by the several States made them as conclusive upon the States as if proposed by a com- petent authority . Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato priori aequiparatur ...
... Continental Congress without authority , their ratification by the several States made them as conclusive upon the States as if proposed by a com- petent authority . Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato priori aequiparatur ...
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... Congress will be found in the First Journal of Congress , page 69. A marked similarity is shown in all of these . In ... Continental Congress . The States which commissioned delegates to the Congress which enacted the Articles of Confed ...
... Congress will be found in the First Journal of Congress , page 69. A marked similarity is shown in all of these . In ... Continental Congress . The States which commissioned delegates to the Congress which enacted the Articles of Confed ...
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... Congress , shall judge necessary for the defense , security and interest or welfare of this State in particular , and of America in general . " It is clear from the above recital , that the delegates to the Continental Congress , from ...
... Congress , shall judge necessary for the defense , security and interest or welfare of this State in particular , and of America in general . " It is clear from the above recital , that the delegates to the Continental Congress , from ...
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CHAPTER V | 95 |
THE CASES OF CHIRAC v CHIRAC HAUENSTEIN v LYNHAM | 143 |
CHAPTER VII | 173 |
CHAPTER VIII | 202 |
CHAPTER IX | 238 |
CHAPTER X | 284 |
CHAPTER XI | 342 |
PAGE | 380 |
CHAPTER XIII | 420 |
INDEX | 435 |
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Página 56 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
Página 432 - No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its...
Página 73 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, * * * enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power.
Página 104 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embraces everything within the territory of a state, not surrendered to the general government ; all which can be most advantageously exercised by the states themselves.
Página 104 - In war, we are one people. In making peace, we are one people. In all commercial regulations, we are one and the same people. In many other respects, the American people are one, and the government which is alone capable of controlling and managing their interests in all these respects, is the government of the Union. It is their government, and in that character they have no other. America has chosen to be, in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation ; and for all these purposes, her government...
Página 19 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.
Página 389 - The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best adapted to their situation and best calculated to promote their interests. The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself; and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and, we think, necessarily applicable to the government created by the instrument. They are limitations of power granted in the instrument itself; not of distinct governments,...
Página 19 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.