Red Cross: Hearings, Before a Subcommittee...S. 2441 and H.R. 7420...December 4 and 8, 19421943 - 108 pages |
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Page 79 - Government hardly could go on if to some extent values incident to property could not be diminished without paying for every such change in the general law.
Page 80 - When this seemingly absolute protection is found to be qualified by the police power, the natural tendency of human nature is to extend the qualification more and more until at last private property disappears. But that cannot be accomplished in this way under the Constitution of the United States.
Page 70 - 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.
Page 70 - The treaty-making power of the United States is not limited by any express provision of the Constitution, and, though it does not extend " so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids," it does extend to all proper subjects of negotiation between our government and other nations.
Page 70 - 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.
Page 73 - The treaty in question does not contravene any prohibitory words to be found in the Constitution. The only question is whether it is forbidden by some invisible radiation from the general terms of the Tenth Amendment.
Page 8 - States, for the purpose of trade or as an advertisement, to induce the sale of any article whatsoever or for any business or charitable purpose to use within the territory of the United States of America and its exterior possessions the emblem of the Greek Red Cross on a white ground, or any sign or insignia made or colored in imitation thereof, or of the words "Red Cross...
Page 78 - The Constitution contains no description of those processes which it was intended to allow or forbid. It docs not even declare what principles are to be applied to ascertain whether it be due process. It is manifest that it was not left to the legislative power to enact any process which might be devised.
Page 94 - ... either in the identical form or in any such near resemblance thereto as may be .calculated to deceive, and that the fac-simile or counterparts filed therewith are true and correct.
Page 73 - To put the claim of the state upon title is to lean upon a slender reed. Wild birds are not in the possession of anyone; and possession is the beginning of ownership. The whole foundation of the state's rights is the presence within their jurisdiction of birds that yesterday had not arrived, to-morrow may be in another state, and in a week a thousand miles away.