Panama Canal Treaty Negotiations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Panama Canal of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress |
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... Canal. Statement of - Continued Samuels , Michael A. , Office of Congressional Relations , Department of State ... Canal Zone-- 230 319 87 U.S. Army jungle operations training center . U.S. employees in Panama Canal Zone ... 93 91 ...
... Canal. Statement of - Continued Samuels , Michael A. , Office of Congressional Relations , Department of State ... Canal Zone-- 230 319 87 U.S. Army jungle operations training center . U.S. employees in Panama Canal Zone ... 93 91 ...
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... Canal Zone to enforce U.S. law on United States and Panamanian citizens alike . Many of the actions of the police and courts involve traffic offenses and minor crimes by Panamanians living in or passing through the zone . Surely most of ...
... Canal Zone to enforce U.S. law on United States and Panamanian citizens alike . Many of the actions of the police and courts involve traffic offenses and minor crimes by Panamanians living in or passing through the zone . Surely most of ...
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... Canal. international extradition must be undertaken to recover him . This is a situation the United States neither needs ... Canal Zone Govern- ment in Panama , and the contrast in living standards between the zone and nearby Panamanian ...
... Canal. international extradition must be undertaken to recover him . This is a situation the United States neither needs ... Canal Zone Govern- ment in Panama , and the contrast in living standards between the zone and nearby Panamanian ...
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... Canal Zone not needed for canal operation and defense but useful in the agricultural , industrial , and urban development of Panama . The areas being considered have been selected with the concurrence of the Department of Defense and ...
... Canal Zone not needed for canal operation and defense but useful in the agricultural , industrial , and urban development of Panama . The areas being considered have been selected with the concurrence of the Department of Defense and ...
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... Canal Zone , which is exactly one of the U.S. objectives in the current negotiations . State representatives will deal with your questions about U.S. Canal Zone activities that Panama alleges to go beyond the authoriza- tions of the ...
... Canal Zone , which is exactly one of the U.S. objectives in the current negotiations . State representatives will deal with your questions about U.S. Canal Zone activities that Panama alleges to go beyond the authoriza- tions of the ...
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Page 117 - 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.
Page 184 - Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such evidence may be required from any place in the United States or any Territory or possession thereof, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 117 - 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 ofthat of the States. It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids...
Page 171 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 184 - ... than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the Commission.
Page 142 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Page 143 - Senate present concur," the House of Representatives do not claim any agency in making Treaties; but, that when a Treaty stipulates regulations on any of the subjects submitted by the Constitution to the power of Congress, it must depend for its execution, as to such stipulations, on a law or laws to be passed by Congress. And it is the constitutional right and duty of the House of Representatives, in all such cases, to deliberate on the expediency or inexpediency Annals of Congress, 4th Cong., ist...
Page 10 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
Page 142 - It would be manifestly contrary to the objectives of those who created the Constitution, as well as those who were responsible for the Bill of Rights - let alone alien to our entire constitutional history and tradition - to construe Article VI as permitting the United States to exercise power under an international agreement without observing constitutional prohibitions.
Page 183 - In addition to such preliminary reports the Board shall submit to the President and to the Congress an annual report...