Passport Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2770 [and Other] Bills Relating to the Issuance of Passports ...Considers legislation to prohibit issuance of passports to communists. |
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activities administration American citizens American Jewish Congress Attorney authority BECKER believe best interests Briehl Chairman Civil Liberties Communist Party Congress constitutional right Dayton deny passports Department due process evidence Federal fifth amendment foreign policy foreign relations freedom of travel going abroad Government hearing Henry Steele Commager individual international Communist movement issuance of passports issue a passport July 14 Kent limited Magna Carta ment MURPHY Nathan national security O'CONNOR Otto Nathan passport application passport bill passport control passport denial passport legislation Passport Office passports issued Paul Robeson persons political President procedures proposed protection questions RAUH reason record refused regulations restraint restrictions right to travel Robeson Rockwell Kent Secretary Dulles section 104 Senator AIKEN Senator FULBRIGHT Senator HUMPHREY Senator MORSE Senator SPARKMAN statement Supreme Court Supreme Court decision tion travel abroad United United States passport violation witnesses WORKUM
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Page 97 - The right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment.
Page 130 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 80 - Under our decisions, a statutory presumption cannot be sustained if there be no rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed, if the inference of the one from proof of the other is arbitrary because of lack of connection between the two in common experience.
Page 99 - Sec. 2. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person — (1) to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government...
Page 195 - At that time he stated that he was not and never had been a member of the Communist Party.
Page 131 - Congress by § 1185 and § 21 la had given the Secretary authority to withhold passports to citizens because of their beliefs or associations. Congress has made no such provision in explicit terms; and absent one, the Secretary may not employ that standard to restrict the citizens
Page 3 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes," approved October 15, 1914, as amended (USC, title 15, sec.
Page 146 - In each case [courts] must ask whether the gravity of the 'evil,' discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger.
Page 127 - For, the very idea that one man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any material right essential to the enjoyment of life, at the mere will of another, seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails, as being the essence of slavery itself.
Page 198 - America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion : So help me God.