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BACKGROUND OF DEBATE ON BR1CKER AMENDMENT
The most controversial matter so considered at this term of the Congress is the Bricker Amendment—a proposal to amend our Constitution by limiting the present power to make treaties and executive agreements.
When Senator Bricker invited members of the Senate to become ro-patrons of his amendment in January 1953, I, along with sixty other Senators, agreed to do so because I agreed with his stated purpose of making it crystal clear that no treaty could be valid which was in conflict with our Constitution. I was particularly concerned because House and Senate Labor Committees, in recommending passage of a Fair Employment Practices Bill, which I considered unconstitutional, had argued that whether or not such action wais authorized ' under our Constitution, it could be done under a section of the Charter of the United Nations, which we had accepted as a treaty. I also was concerned by the fact that' when President Truman seized the steel industry and the Chief Justice and two other members of the Supreme Court said, in a minority opinion, that his action was authorized they put considerable emphasis upon the President's obligation to carry out our responsibilities as a signer of the United Nations Charter.
Before the Bricker Amendment
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