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Should the United States Ratify the Covenants? A Question of Merits, Not of Constitutional Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

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Editorial Comment
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1968

References

1 MacChesney, ‘ ‘ International Protection of Human Bights in the United Nations,'' 47 Northwestern U. Law Rev. 198(1952).

2 2 Int. Lawyer 600 (1967). Although labeled as an excerpt, the Editor-in-Chief of the International Lawyer stated that “the main thrust of the report remains unimpaired.“ Ibid, at 601.

3 Gardner, “A Costly Anachronism,” 53 A.B.A.J. 907 (1967).

4 2 Int. Lawyer 638(1967). Joint statement of Benjamin Busch, Walter B. Craig, Donald K. Duvall, Harry A. Inman, Robert Layton, Leonard C. Meeker, Charles E. Norberg and John E. Stevenson.

5 Ibid.

6 In the context of the Bricker Amendment, the writer has stated his views on the constitutional questions involved. See MacChesney, “The Fallacies in the Case for the Bricker Amendment,” 29 Notre Dame Lawyer 551(1954).

7 The debate is reported in 53 A.B.A.J. 963 at 972-976(1967).