Bricker Amendment
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The Bricker Amendment is the collective name of a number of slightly different proposed amendments to the United States Constitution considered by the United States Senate in the 1950s. None of these
The Constitution of the United States granted the federal government control of foreign affairs.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' opinion in Missouri v. Holland was cited as a justification of the Bricker Amendment.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) at Yalta in 1945, where he made an agreement with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin which was asserted to show the need for a constitutional amendment.
John Foster Dulles said restrictions were needed on treaties, until he became Secretary of State in the Eisenhower Administration.
William Knowland
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William Fife Knowland was an American politician and newspaper publisher. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from California from 1945 to 1959. He was Senate Majori
Political advertisement for Knowland's first Assembly campaign published in the Alameda Times-Star, August 29, 1932
Knowland (top row, second from right) in uniform with fellow servicemen, 1942
Knowland atop an elephant at a circus in Orange County, California, during his unsuccessful run for California Governor in 1958