Adoption Reunion Registries and Screening of Adults Working with Children: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, June 11, 1998, Volume 4 |
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Page 39 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Page 39 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite.
Page 9 - where compliance with both federal and state regulations is a physical impossibility..., " Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, 373 US 132, 142-143 (1963), or where the state " law stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.
Page 9 - The scheme of federal regulation may be so pervasive as to make reasonable the inference that Congress left no room for the States to supplement it. ... Or the Act of Congress may touch a field in which the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will be assumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject.
Page 1 - Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 am, in room B-318 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (Chairman of the Subcommittee) presiding. [The advisory...
Page 102 - to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, insolvency, the form of notarial certificates, and other subjects : to ascertain the best means to effect an assimilation and uniformity in the laws of the States, and especially to consider whether it would be wise and practicable for the State of New York to invite the other States of the Union to send representatives to a convention to draft uniform laws to be submitted for the approval and adoption of the several States, and to devise and recommend...
Page 9 - ... [T]he question whether a certain state action is preempted by federal law is one of congressional intent. • 'The purpose of Congress is the ultimate touchstone.
Page 9 - ... though enacted in the execution of acknowledged State powers, interfere with, or are contrary to the laws of Congress, made in pursuance of the constitution, or some treaty made under the authority of the United States. In every such case, the act of Congress, or the treaty, is supreme ; and the law of the State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it.
Page 160 - Every agreement, promise or undertaking is void, unless it or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith, or by his lawful agent, if such agreement, promise or undertaking: 1. By its terms is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof or the performance of which is not to be completed before the end of a lifetime ; 2.