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, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Canal Zone |
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... exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights , power or authority . ARTICLE IV . As ...
... exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights , power or authority . ARTICLE IV . As ...
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... exercise of the right of eminent domain , any lands , buildings , water rights or other properties necessary and convenient for the construc- tion , maintenance , operation and protection of the Canal and of any works of sanitation ...
... exercise of the right of eminent domain , any lands , buildings , water rights or other properties necessary and convenient for the construc- tion , maintenance , operation and protection of the Canal and of any works of sanitation ...
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... exercise it when Congress has already acted , as in the enactment of the Canal Zone Code ? It is difficult to find authority on this point , because , as I say , no court ever seems to have held that there is such a power . The nearest ...
... exercise it when Congress has already acted , as in the enactment of the Canal Zone Code ? It is difficult to find authority on this point , because , as I say , no court ever seems to have held that there is such a power . The nearest ...
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... exercise the treaty power properly . Under the concurrent power one may create a treaty which would be presented only to the Senate . I cannot argue against that . If in fact the State Department believes it has concurrent power and if ...
... exercise the treaty power properly . Under the concurrent power one may create a treaty which would be presented only to the Senate . I cannot argue against that . If in fact the State Department believes it has concurrent power and if ...
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... exercise of such power by the President through a treaty has been held to be circumscribed by prior legislation dealing with the subject . " All parties recognize that if in fact Congress has preempted the relevant field of foreign ...
... exercise of such power by the President through a treaty has been held to be circumscribed by prior legislation dealing with the subject . " All parties recognize that if in fact Congress has preempted the relevant field of foreign ...
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Page 216 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers, be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil, any partial or -transient benefit which the use can at...
Page 216 - ... that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 248 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 5 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal...
Page 12 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. VIII. That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States.
Page 145 - The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial...
Page 12 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 39 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter. Courts can sustain exclusive Presidential control in such a case only by disabling the Congress from acting upon the subject. Presidential claim to a power at once so conclusive and preclusive must be scrutinized with caution, for what is at stake is the...
Page 5 - 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...
Page 8 - The Government of the Republic of Panama shall permit the immigration and free access to the lands and workshops of the Canal and its auxiliary works of all employees and workmen of whatever nationality under...