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S. HRG. 99-214

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE

PROPOSED GENOCIDE CONVENTION

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

CONSIDERING THE CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PROPOSED

GENOCIDE CONVENTION

FEBRUARY 26, 1985

Serial No. J-99-5

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

KFZG J8359 1985 a

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman
CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware
PAUL LAXALT, Nevada

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming

HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio JOHN P. EAST, North Carolina

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama

HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania

PAUL SIMON, Illinois MITCH MCCONNELL, Kentucky

DENNIS W. SHEDD, Chief Counsel and Staff Director

DEBORAH K. OWEN, General Counsel

DEBORAH BERNSTEIN, Chief Clerk
MARK H. GITENSTEIN, Minority Chief Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION

ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah, Chairman STROM THURMOND, South Carolina

DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa

PAUL SIMON, Illinois
STEPHEN J. MARKMAN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director

RANDALL RADER, General Counsel
MICHAEL Loyd CHADWICK, Professional Staff

Bob FEIDLER, Minority Chief Counsel

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CONTENTS

OPENING STATEMENTS

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Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah, chairman,

Subcommittee on the Constitution

Thurmond, Hon. Strom, a U.S. Senator from the State of South Carolina,

chairman, Committee on the Judiciary.

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Moore, John Norton, Walter L. Brown Professor of Law and director, Center

for Law and National Security, University of Virginia......

de Seife, Rodolphe J.A., professor of law, Northern Illinois University College

of Law....

Murphy, John F., professor of law, Villanova University.

Friedlander, Robert A., professor of law, Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern

University.

ALPHABETICAL LISTING AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED

de Seife, Rodolphe J.A.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Responses to written questions from:

Senator Hatch

Senator Grassley.

Senator Leahy

Friedlander, Robert A.:

Testimony.

Prepared statement

Analysis of the Genocide Convention.

Responses to written questions from:

Responses to written questions from:

Responses to written questions from:

APPENDIX

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide..........

A. State of Missouri brief.

B. Henry St. George Tucker-Limitations on Treaty Power (excerpts).

C. William E. Mikell-Limitations on Treaty Power (excerpts).

D. Florence Allen-Treaty as Legislation ...

E. Articles against the Genocide Convention:

The Genocide Convention-Its Effect on our Legal System, by Orie L.

Phillips, from ABA Journal, August 1949

Books

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