...produce the ''as if" clause conveniently forget to add what follows in this "in perpetuity" treaty ; ie "to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic...of any such sovereign rights, power or authority." The bulk of scholarship on the sovereignty issue supports the VFW view. A family of treaties (a) with...

...States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within such lands and waters located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by...Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights power of authority. If that is not final langauge, I do not know what is. Further, in article VI of the treaty,...

...mentioned . . . which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign . . . to 11\c entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of...of any such sovereign rights, power or authority." (Italics added.) 1° House Subcommittee on the Panama Canal of the Committee on Merchant Mnrite and...

...to the United States in the Canal zone "all the rights, power, and authority which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the Sovereign of the territory; to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power,...

...you know, grants to the United States all the rights, power, and authority within the zone which it would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory. Now, it seems to me that looking at this in the context of what plainly ought to be our governing concept...

...Canal * * *" as well as "all rights, power and authority within the zone * * * which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory * * * to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights,...

...the 1903 Treaty, the United States was granted "all the rights, power and authority . . . which it would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory". We were given use rights, but Panama retained residual ownership. Under the new treaties, the United...

...Panama gives the US rights to the Canal Zone "* * * as if it were sovereign," "in perpetuity" and "* * * to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama to any such sovereign rights, powers, or authority." That adds up to a treaty of territorial cession...

...the United States all the rights, power and authority within the Canal Zone "which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory * * * the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such rights, power, or...

...United States all the rights, power and authority within the (Canal) Zone ... which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory...". The Treaty does not grant the US sovereignty over the Zone, it only grants it the powers as_ if_ it...