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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... ment with regard to this issue is of great importance . We are anxious to learn the position of the State Department in this matter . Will others testify besides yourself or will they be here to advise you ? TESTIMONY OF HERBERT J ...
... ment with regard to this issue is of great importance . We are anxious to learn the position of the State Department in this matter . Will others testify besides yourself or will they be here to advise you ? TESTIMONY OF HERBERT J ...
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... ment , if one is negotiated , and a number of other considerations . I am afraid I could not speak to that . Senator ALLEN . How would it be contrary to the Constitution if your contention is that the Congress and the Executive have ...
... ment , if one is negotiated , and a number of other considerations . I am afraid I could not speak to that . Senator ALLEN . How would it be contrary to the Constitution if your contention is that the Congress and the Executive have ...
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... ment not bring that to the attention of Congress or bring it to Congress for approval ? Why for the last 3 years , in essence , has the State Department re- fused to take the position of going to Congress and requesting legisla- tion to ...
... ment not bring that to the attention of Congress or bring it to Congress for approval ? Why for the last 3 years , in essence , has the State Department re- fused to take the position of going to Congress and requesting legisla- tion to ...
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... ment or of its departments and those arising from the nature of the Government itself and that of the States . It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids or a change in the character ...
... ment or of its departments and those arising from the nature of the Government itself and that of the States . It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids or a change in the character ...
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... Senator MORSE . One last question : It appears from the testimony that you have given thus far that considerable legislation will be required to imple- ment this treaty . Do you think it would be possible for the Department 28.
... Senator MORSE . One last question : It appears from the testimony that you have given thus far that considerable legislation will be required to imple- ment this treaty . Do you think it would be possible for the Department 28.
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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...