The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session on Ex. O, 81-1, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Adopted Unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris on December 9, 1948, and Signed on Behalf of the United States on December 11, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - Počet stran: 181 |
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... Constitution and to our country . I think that is the reason for the widespread and deep antagonism which American citizens feel toward the Genocide Treaty when its implications are explained to them . I think that as Americans we sense ...
... Constitution and to our country . I think that is the reason for the widespread and deep antagonism which American citizens feel toward the Genocide Treaty when its implications are explained to them . I think that as Americans we sense ...
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... constitutional system . r . Chairman , there are so many questions which arise and which be examined in great detail by this committee with regard to national obligations , the Constitution , and the separation of ers . These problems ...
... constitutional system . r . Chairman , there are so many questions which arise and which be examined in great detail by this committee with regard to national obligations , the Constitution , and the separation of ers . These problems ...
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... Constitution and our national policies . I certainly do not question the motives of Senators who had reservations about one provision or another and wanted to probe carefully the prospective consequences of ratification . This was their ...
... Constitution and our national policies . I certainly do not question the motives of Senators who had reservations about one provision or another and wanted to probe carefully the prospective consequences of ratification . This was their ...
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... Constitution ow little faith they have in the strength of the Constitution and the ndness of our constitutional system . How ironic for them to assume system would collapse under the burden of an obligation already imed by 90 states ...
... Constitution ow little faith they have in the strength of the Constitution and the ndness of our constitutional system . How ironic for them to assume system would collapse under the burden of an obligation already imed by 90 states ...
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... Constitution provides that an international treaty shall become " the supreme law of the land " and shall have the status of supreme law for all purposes of domestic law - I repeat , domestic law - in binding the conduct of American ...
... Constitution provides that an international treaty shall become " the supreme law of the land " and shall have the status of supreme law for all purposes of domestic law - I repeat , domestic law - in binding the conduct of American ...
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Strana 141 - 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...
Strana 143 - These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Strana 76 - Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Strana 86 - And a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.
Strana 39 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.
Strana 100 - Such considerations apply with added force to children in grade and high schools. To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Strana 148 - The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force.
Strana 160 - Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Strana 140 - In the present 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...
Strana 126 - ... of the International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, may be cited as the " Oil Pollution Act, 1961." Definitions. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. — As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — (a) The term