Bricker Amendment News Today

The first head of the IRS, who wanted to abolish the income tax, waged an unlikely campaign on behalf of the Taftite remnant.

International relations theorists once explored racism. What has the field lost by giving that up?

America was launched with a declaration that, in the words of John Quincy Adams, “constituted a great people” and “laid the foundation of their government upon the unalterable and eternal principles of human rights.” It does not follow, however, that Americans should embrace elaborate schemes to codify human rights in international law. Our Founding documents actually suggest the opposite conclusion. The traditional view of the Constitution, if we still attend to it, protects our system ...

In 1954, the Senate nearly passed a constitutional amendment to curtail the president’s authority to make international agreements. President Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided a major foreign policy loss thanks to an unusual ally.

United nations. there was the bricker amendment that came out of ohio that actually tried to stop any president from having treaty making power, even of the smallest kind. that was the hard right, fighting against a moderate republican. so it actually goes back 60 years. >> and in the context, in the 50s, the new deal was still new, back in the 1950s and the great society hadnt happened. to give you a taste of -- >> eisenhower in a sense consolidated the new deal and took it under a bipartisan -...