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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... questions ? I do believe a question like that begins to get into some of the areas that should be in executive session . In reaching this decision , President Johnson had consulted with and obtained the support of Presidents Hoover ...
... questions ? I do believe a question like that begins to get into some of the areas that should be in executive session . In reaching this decision , President Johnson had consulted with and obtained the support of Presidents Hoover ...
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... question about the legal aspects of ceding U.S. controlled territory to Panama . We plan only to release certain land and water areas in the Canal Zone not needed for canal operation and defense but useful in the agricultural ...
... question about the legal aspects of ceding U.S. controlled territory to Panama . We plan only to release certain land and water areas in the Canal Zone not needed for canal operation and defense but useful in the agricultural ...
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... question , and I wish to assure this committee that no final decision has been taken by this administration ... questions that members of the committee have that do not go into the security area at all . There are some questions on the ...
... question , and I wish to assure this committee that no final decision has been taken by this administration ... questions that members of the committee have that do not go into the security area at all . There are some questions on the ...
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... question and not to satisfy the members of the press , I think it is more important that the full exploitation or the full explana- tion of questions not related to national security be discussed . The fact that a question may or may ...
... question and not to satisfy the members of the press , I think it is more important that the full exploitation or the full explana- tion of questions not related to national security be discussed . The fact that a question may or may ...
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... question because if it is going to mean any appropriation the House then would have jurisdiction . Mr. MUNDT . That ... questions are going to be to Mr. Hurwitch and I think they could be answered with very short and quick replies so ...
... question because if it is going to mean any appropriation the House then would have jurisdiction . Mr. MUNDT . That ... questions are going to be to Mr. Hurwitch and I think they could be answered with very short and quick replies so ...
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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...