Panama Canal Treaty: Disposition of United States Territory : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Canal Zone |
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... engineers reported that construction would be cheaper than in Panama . The bankrupt French company was reorganized , how- ever , as the new Panama Canal Co. Actually its sole reason for existence was the plan to sell its conces- sion to ...
... engineers reported that construction would be cheaper than in Panama . The bankrupt French company was reorganized , how- ever , as the new Panama Canal Co. Actually its sole reason for existence was the plan to sell its conces- sion to ...
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... engineers and geologists , marine biologists , Panama Canal pilots and other navigators , lawyers , and distinguished ... engineering , operational , economic , legal , environ- mental and defense that the only common sense solution of ...
... engineers and geologists , marine biologists , Panama Canal pilots and other navigators , lawyers , and distinguished ... engineering , operational , economic , legal , environ- mental and defense that the only common sense solution of ...
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... engineers , geologists , economists , navigators , including Panama Canal pilots , and nuclear warfare experts , have strongly supported major canal modernization as the proper course for the Congress to take . PANAMA CANAL , 1971 ...
... engineers , geologists , economists , navigators , including Panama Canal pilots , and nuclear warfare experts , have strongly supported major canal modernization as the proper course for the Congress to take . PANAMA CANAL , 1971 ...
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... engineering - industrial group , including manufacturers of heavy earth moving machinery . The recommendation of the 1970 Anderson Report for a sea level canal hinges upon the surrender of U.S. sovereignty over the Canal Zone . Moreover ...
... engineering - industrial group , including manufacturers of heavy earth moving machinery . The recommendation of the 1970 Anderson Report for a sea level canal hinges upon the surrender of U.S. sovereignty over the Canal Zone . Moreover ...
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... engineering ) . ( 2 ) Two members from private life , experienced and skilled in the science of engineering . 1 2 3 4 . 10 ( 3 ) One 94.
... engineering ) . ( 2 ) Two members from private life , experienced and skilled in the science of engineering . 1 2 3 4 . 10 ( 3 ) One 94.
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79th Congress agreement Alaska Purchase American approved Article Atlantic authority Balboa Bunau-Varilla canal treaty Canal Zone Police ceded cession Chagres river Chairman Colombia Committee Congress Congressional Record Constitution construction CROMMELIN defense Department DOZER DRUMMOND employees engineering executive branch existing canal Foreign Gaillard cut Gatun lake Governor grant HANSELL Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Hay-Herran Treaty Hay-Pauncefote Treaty House interoceanic canal issue Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmian Canal Policy Isthmus Isthmus of Panama June land Latin America marine ment million Miraflores MUNK naval Nicaragua officer operation Pacific locks Panama Canal Company Panama Railroad Panamanian Pedro Miguel perpetuity President protection purchase ratification recognized REPORT Republic of Panama Roosevelt route Sea-level Canal Secretary Senator ALLEN Senator HATCH sovereign control sovereign rights sovereignty statement subcommittee surrender territory Third Locks Project Thomson-Urrutia Treaty tion traffic transit treaty negotiations treaty of 1903 treaty with Panama U.S. citizens United vessels Washington
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Page 201 - If men were angels, no Government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on Government would be necessary. In framing a Government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the Government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Page 156 - In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor— the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others— the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.
Page 130 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 159 - States guarantee, positively and efficaciously, to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists : and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 165 - ... and to prepare and issue therefor coupon or registered bonds of the United States in such form as he may prescribe, and in denominations of twenty dollars or some multiple of that sum, redeemable in gold coin at the pleasure of the United States...
Page 23 - 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.
Page 159 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United States that the right of way or transit across the .Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the government and citizens of the United States...
Page 165 - That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the United States from time to time, as the proceeds may be required to defray expenditures authorized by this Act...
Page 113 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid.
Page 199 - Canal of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the center line of the route of the canal to be constructed; the said zone beginning in the Caribbean Sea, three marine miles from mean low water mark...