Objections to Reciprocity on Constitutional and Practical Grounds

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Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1904 - 35 страници
 

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Страница 9 - Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Страница 8 - House a copy of the instructions to the minister of the United States, who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as any existing negotiation may render improper to be disclosed.
Страница 4 - Among these express powers are the powers: "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises . . . [and] to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.
Страница 9 - ... 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 of carrying such treaty into effect, and to determine and act thereon as, in their judgment, may be most conducive to the public good.
Страница 8 - As, therefore, it is perfectly clear to my understanding that the assent of the House of Representatives is not necessary to the validity of a treaty; as the treaty with Great Britain exhibits in itself all the objects requiring legislative provision, and on these the papers called for can throw no light, and as it is essential to the due administration of the Government that the boundaries fixed by the Constitution between the different departments should be preserved, a just regard to the Constitution...
Страница 7 - That is to say, that her sacred royal majesty of Great Britain shall, in her own name, and that of her successors, be obliged, for ever hereafter, to admit the wines of the growth of Portugal into Britain...
Страница 7 - I His sacred royal majesty of Portugal promises, both in his own name, and that of his successors, to admit, for ever hereafter...
Страница 6 - ... foreign •war. The power of borrowing money on the credit of the United States resides in Congress ; this power would cease to exist if the President and Senate could by treaty bind the country to the borrowing of foreign funds. By the Constitution ' no money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law...
Страница 8 - Senators 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...
Страница 31 - States, than are or shall be payable upon the like articles being the- growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country ; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in the territories of either of the high contracting parties on the exportation of any articles to the territories of the other than such as are or may be payable...

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