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ELSIE SCHILLER. Editor
DICK CARTER. Business Manager
JACKIE WARDELL, RON MILLER. Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, Managing Editor
VALERA VI ERR A, Adv. Mgr.
LEN CALVERT, LAURA STURGF.S, Editorial Assistants
JOE GARDNER, News Editor
BOB ROBINSON, Sports Editor
The Bricker Amendment
What's behind this thing they called the Bricker amendment?
After all the recent articles, lectures and congressional debate
about the proposed amendment to limit the treaty-making power,
everyone should be well enough acquainted with it to discuss
it. There is little reason to spend time going over the same ma
terial. However, it is important to realize the significant ques
tions that have arisen to bring about the so-called need for con
stitutional limitation.
Our government has gradually changed from interest in
internal affairs to interest in international affairs. This has
made the President, as the only representative of the United
States abroad, more powerful, and has made the treaty-making
power seem more open to abuse. Although the Bricker amend
ment is aimed at the legislative branch of the government as
much as at the executive, except in regard to executive agree
ments, it brings up this major point.
Has the President become too powerful? Or, in the light of
JWorld commitments, is he powerful enough to make the voice of
the United States one voice rather than many? vFhe Bricker
amendment, trying to make executive agreements subject to
■Senate approval, is a direct blow to this power.
The other issue raised by proponents of the Bricker amend
ment has caused a lot of headaches in constitutional law circles.
This stems from the provision in the Constitution which provides
that treaties “shall be the supreme Law of the Land,” over any
previous federal or state laws. We cannot be expected to figure
?t out, if lawyers cannot, but it is worth thinking about. The
•question is:
What effect will the United Nations Charter, which we have
already ratified, and U. N. Treaties, several of which are now
awaiting ratification, have upon internal law? Bricker and
his colleagues point out that civil rights and liberties are in
danger of being overruled by international treaties. Bricker’s
opponents, on the other hand, say this is nonsense.
These two questions are not the only important issues facing
■Sis, but they are perhaps the two needing the most discussion. It
tnay be that there are no answers. The point to remember is that
ihe Bricker amendment has all the earmarks of trying to answer
these questions through the isolationist viewpoint. And this may
solve nothing. (R.M.)
Where Credit's Due
“Wonderful talk Professor Snarf—I’ve never heard a class lecture
in which the most important points were more cleverly disguised.”
jLetter8. ••
...to the Editor
Wake Up, America
Emerald Editor:
An open letter to Greeks and
non-Greeks concerning "Racial
Clauses in Greek Letter Organ
izations” :
These people are supposed to
he the cream of tomorrow’s so
ciety In a Democracy. In re
gards to 'the above, I would
like to have the following ques
tions answered:
What causes race prejudice
other than ignorance and fear?
How strong is the National
Headquarters? Is it the chapters
and the members vivid support
that determine the National
Headquarters' policies? I would
appreciate very much if the in
dividuals who are defending this
un-American concept in these or
ganizations or the Gentleman’s
Agreement explain their actions
inferred, regarding racial clauses
in their organizations.
How would you, as responsi
ble leaders of your organiza
tions and future representa
tives of the American Democ
racy, explain these racial prac
tices to the darker peoples of
the world? Does American
Democracy uphold racial dis
crimination? Are you, by your
practices, setting the example
of the American way of Life?
We are no longer isolated, but
a neighborhood.
Please wake up fellow Ameri
cans. Let us not force our chil
dren to do the job that we can
do! Let our generation be not
ashamed of its history as our
fathers and forefathers.
Name withheld by request
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