Great Lakes-St: Lawrence BasinU.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - 308 pagina's |
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Great Lakes-St: Lawrence Basin United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Volledige weergave - 1945 |
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act of Congress American approval authority binding BORCHARD Boundary Waters Treaty Britain Canadian Canadian side canals channel commerce clause committee confiscation consent Constitution construction Cubic yard deep waterway diversion of water Dominion of Canada effect excavation exchange of notes Executive agree Executive agreement Foreign Relations Government HACKWORTH HICKERSON High Contracting Parties House International Joint Commission international law International Rapids Section International Section Lake Michigan Lakes System Lakes-St Lawrence Basin Lawrence River legislation majority vote matter ment Niagara River obligation Ontario opinion Parliament Parliament of Canada President proposed question ratified referred repeal respect rights of navigation Russian Secretary Senator BAILEY Senator BREWSTER Senator BURTON Senator FERGUSON Senator MEAD Senator OVERTON Senator RADCLIFFE Senator SMITH Senator VANDENBERG Soviet special agreement submitted Supreme Court tenth amendment territory tion treaty of 1909 treaty-making power two-thirds rule two-thirds vote United WILEY
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Pagina 304 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Pagina 304 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Pagina 130 - It is important to bear in mind that we are here dealing not alone with an authority vested in the President by an exertion of legislative power, but with such an authority plus the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations...
Pagina 29 - Dominion" means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland.
Pagina 43 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line, affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters...
Pagina 42 - The high contracting parties further agree that any other questions or matters of difference arising between them involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along the common frontier...
Pagina 304 - Commerce includes navigation. The power to regulate commerce comprehends the control for that purpose, and to the extent necessary, of all the navigable waters of the United States which are accessible from a State other than those in which they lie. For this purpose they are the public property of the nation, and subject to all the requisite legislation by Congress.
Pagina 43 - The high contracting parties agree that, except in cases provided for by special agreement between them, they will not permit the construction or maintenance on their respective sides of the boundary of any remedial or protective works or any dams or other obstructions in waters flowing from boundary waters or in waters at a lower level than the boundary in rivers flowing across the boundary, the effect of which is to raise the natural level of waters on the other side of the boundary, unless the...
Pagina 46 - The International Joint Commission is authorized in each case so referred to examine into and report upon the facts and circumstances of the particular questions and matters referred, together with such conclusions and...
Pagina 130 - Not only, as we have shown, is the federal power over external affairs in origin and essential character different from that over internal affairs, but participation in the exercise of the power is significantly limited. In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation.