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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... going on in the German concentration camps . I think today's hearing is a good idea , and I would hope that by hearing both the pros and cons of this treaty we could move ahead toward ratification . As we do so , I think we should pay ...
... going on in the German concentration camps . I think today's hearing is a good idea , and I would hope that by hearing both the pros and cons of this treaty we could move ahead toward ratification . As we do so , I think we should pay ...
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... implementing legisla- tion to fulfill its purposes , and it is going to be interesting to see how that applies to the violent nations of this world . We will see whether these nations will sign the treaty and then regard it 4.
... implementing legisla- tion to fulfill its purposes , and it is going to be interesting to see how that applies to the violent nations of this world . We will see whether these nations will sign the treaty and then regard it 4.
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... going to be opposed on the floor . We already submit our sovereignty as a country in many regards . We submit it every day in the Senate . The will of the legislative process affects the people of our country . I hope that we will go ...
... going to be opposed on the floor . We already submit our sovereignty as a country in many regards . We submit it every day in the Senate . The will of the legislative process affects the people of our country . I hope that we will go ...
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... going to pass a treaty that can permit Americans , because of some alleged act committed , to be sent to another country for trial in violation of the Constitution of the United States ? I don't think so . I don't think the Senate will ...
... going to pass a treaty that can permit Americans , because of some alleged act committed , to be sent to another country for trial in violation of the Constitution of the United States ? I don't think so . I don't think the Senate will ...
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... going before foreign Courts but it certainly violates our sovereignty by letting the World Court meddle in our affairs . " That is a fair question , Mr. President , but let us look at the record . During the Foreign Relations Committee ...
... going before foreign Courts but it certainly violates our sovereignty by letting the World Court meddle in our affairs . " That is a fair question , Mr. President , but let us look at the record . During the Foreign Relations Committee ...
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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 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 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 161 - 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 ; (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...
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 126 - International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954.
Strana 86 - 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 92 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at...