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 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
Bricker Amendment
…refusal of the United States "to accept the leadership of world democracy that had been thrust upon it." In 1954, Eisenhower wrote Senate majority leader William F. Knowland of California stating, "Adoption of the Bricker Amendment in its present form by the Senate would be notice to our friends as well as our enemies abroad…
Portrait of California Senator William F. Knowland Edit
Knowland in the Alameda High School yearbook, 1925
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