Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events |
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If Panama should not concur in our action , or if Panama actively opposed it , there is no question in my mind that Panama would interpret such action as directed against her territorial integrity and her political independence .
If Panama should not concur in our action , or if Panama actively opposed it , there is no question in my mind that Panama would interpret such action as directed against her territorial integrity and her political independence .
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The report notes that the power to appropriate money or to impose taxes cannot be exercised by treaty because the Constitution specifically limits their exercise to action by both Houses . The Senator then argues that since the ...
The report notes that the power to appropriate money or to impose taxes cannot be exercised by treaty because the Constitution specifically limits their exercise to action by both Houses . The Senator then argues that since the ...
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Provided that the agreement in Article IV to maintain the regime of neutrality would permit either Panama or the United States to take unilateral action to defend the Canal against any threat which it determined to warrant such action .
Provided that the agreement in Article IV to maintain the regime of neutrality would permit either Panama or the United States to take unilateral action to defend the Canal against any threat which it determined to warrant such action .
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Contents
REPRESENTATIVE STATEMENTS ON THE MAJOR THEMES | 17 |
Laxalt March 1 1978 | 218 |
SUMMARY TEXT AND VOTE FOR ALL PROPOSED AMEND | 343 |
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| Title | Senate Debate on the Panama Canal Treaties: A Compendium of Major Statements, Documents, Record Votes, and Relevant Events U.S. and Panama and their canal : the diplomatic and legal record |
| Author | Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service |
| Contributor | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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