Constitutional Issues Relating to the Proposed Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... February 26, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985 - 768 Seiten |
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... tion in the 1950 and 1971 hearings , in 1976 the ABA's house of del- egates passed a resolution favoring ratification , containing reserva- tions and declarations approved by the Foreign Relations Commit- tee . A year later , President ...
... tion in the 1950 and 1971 hearings , in 1976 the ABA's house of del- egates passed a resolution favoring ratification , containing reserva- tions and declarations approved by the Foreign Relations Commit- tee . A year later , President ...
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... tion of reservations to multilateral conventions both from the point of view of codification and from that of the ... tion is objected to by one or more of the parties to the Conven- tion but not by others ? The Court observes that this ...
... tion of reservations to multilateral conventions both from the point of view of codification and from that of the ... tion is objected to by one or more of the parties to the Conven- tion but not by others ? The Court observes that this ...
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... tion which in its traditional concept involved the proposition that no reservation was valid unless it was accepted by all the contracting parties without exception , as would have been the case if it had been stated during the ...
... tion which in its traditional concept involved the proposition that no reservation was valid unless it was accepted by all the contracting parties without exception , as would have been the case if it had been stated during the ...
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... tion of the reserving State . By denying them this right , it is said , they would be obliged either to renounce entirely their right of partic- ipating in the Convention , or to become a party to what is , in fact , a different ...
... tion of the reserving State . By denying them this right , it is said , they would be obliged either to renounce entirely their right of partic- ipating in the Convention , or to become a party to what is , in fact , a different ...
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... tion is stated , whether it wishes to maintain or withdraw its reserva- tion . In the circumstances , it is of little importance whether the rati- fication occurs within a more or less long time - limit . The resulting situation will ...
... tion is stated , whether it wishes to maintain or withdraw its reserva- tion . In the circumstances , it is of little importance whether the rati- fication occurs within a more or less long time - limit . The resulting situation will ...
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Seite 114 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
Seite 163 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Seite 352 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth and of the subjects of the same.
Seite 414 - No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism...
Seite 676 - ... international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations ; d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.
Seite 215 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Seite 175 - This government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it, would seem too apparent to have required to be enforced by all those arguments which its enlightened friends, while it was depending before the people, found it necessary to urge. That principle is now universally admitted.
Seite 688 - Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.
Seite 404 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Seite 685 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.