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... Debates , Lords , 5th series , 51 : 15 . 17 See , inter alia , speech by Senator Hiram Johnson in Cong . Rec . , Jan. 9 , 1923 , p . 1471 , and address by Senator Pepper before the New York State Bar Association as reported in the New ...
... Debates , Lords , 5th series , 51 : 15 . 17 See , inter alia , speech by Senator Hiram Johnson in Cong . Rec . , Jan. 9 , 1923 , p . 1471 , and address by Senator Pepper before the New York State Bar Association as reported in the New ...
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... debate ensued . The motion was supported by a number of Liberal and Labor members on the ground that the proposed committee would tend to do away with secret diplo- macy , bring the conduct of foreign relations more 6 * Hansard , 3d ...
... debate ensued . The motion was supported by a number of Liberal and Labor members on the ground that the proposed committee would tend to do away with secret diplo- macy , bring the conduct of foreign relations more 6 * Hansard , 3d ...
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... Debates , Commons , 5th series , 104 : 841-902 . For early discussions of the project for a foreign affairs committee see Low , Sidney : Foreign office autocracy , in Fortnightly Review for Jan. , 1912 , and Morrell , P .: The control ...
... Debates , Commons , 5th series , 104 : 841-902 . For early discussions of the project for a foreign affairs committee see Low , Sidney : Foreign office autocracy , in Fortnightly Review for Jan. , 1912 , and Morrell , P .: The control ...
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... Debates , Commons , 5th series , 104 : 878 . Lichnowsky : My mission to London 1912-1914 , pp . 14 ff . See also Kennedy , op . cit . , p . 286 and note . Assembly . It was then argued that , if the SECRET AND OPEN DIPLOMACY 97.
... Debates , Commons , 5th series , 104 : 878 . Lichnowsky : My mission to London 1912-1914 , pp . 14 ff . See also Kennedy , op . cit . , p . 286 and note . Assembly . It was then argued that , if the SECRET AND OPEN DIPLOMACY 97.
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... Debates , Commons , 5th series , 104 : 870 ff . 11 See for example Borah , William E .: The perils of secret treaty - making , in Forum , 60 : 657 ( Dec. , 1918 ) ; statements by Senator McKellar respecting the meetings of the World War ...
... Debates , Commons , 5th series , 104 : 870 ff . 11 See for example Borah , William E .: The perils of secret treaty - making , in Forum , 60 : 657 ( Dec. , 1918 ) ; statements by Senator McKellar respecting the meetings of the World War ...
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Page 69 - It should be your effort to bring about in the Second Conference a development of the Hague Tribunal into a permanent tribunal composed of judges who are judicial officers and nothing else, who are paid adequate salaries, who have no other occupation, and who will devote their entire time to the trial and decision of international causes by judicial methods and under a sense of judicial responsibility.
Page 84 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of...
Page 173 - The idea is Utopian, that government can exist without leaving the exercise of discretion somewhere. Public security against the abuse of such discretion must rest on responsibility, and stated appeals to public approbation. Where all power is derived from the people, and public functionaries, at short intervals, deposit it at the feet of the people, to be resumed again only at their will, individual fears may be alarmed by the monsters of imagination, but individual liberty can be in little danger.
Page 100 - The general doctrine of our Constitution then is, that the executive power of the nation is vested in the President; subject only to the exceptions and qualifications, which are expressed in the instrument.
Page 101 - Time and time again debates have arisen in each House upon issues which the information of a particular department head would have enabled him, if present, to end at once by a simple explanation or statement.
Page 44 - ... only objection; but this he thought, so far as it was inconsistent with obtaining the Legislative sanction, was outweighed by the necessity of the latter. " Mr. Sherman thought the only question that could be made was whether the power could be safely trusted to the Senate. He thought it could; and that the necessity of secrecy in the case of treaties forbade a reference of them to the whole Legislature.
Page 169 - France that nothing but the inflexible character of Washington, and the immense popularity which he enjoyed, could have prevented the Americans from declaring war against England. And even then, the exertions which the austere reason of that great man made to repress the generous but imprudent passions of his fellow-citizens, very nearly deprived him of the sole recompense which he had ever claimed — that of his country's love.
Page 48 - Now the irreparable mistake of our Constitution puts it into the power of one third + 1 of the Senate to meet with a categorical veto any treaty negotiated by the President, even though it may have the approval of nine tenths of the people of the nation.