Supplementary Extradition Treaty Between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on the Impact of the Supplementary Treaty Upon American Domestic Law and Upon the American Constitutional Process in the Fight Against Terrorism, November 5, 1985

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Страница 158 - The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.
Страница 16 - WASHINGTON : 1985 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL The White House, July 17, 1985. To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Supplementary Extradition Treaty between the United States of America
Страница 184 - substantial grounds for believing that the request for extradition ... has been made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing a person on account of his race, religion, nationality or political opinion, or that that person's position may be prejudiced for any of these reasons.
Страница 138 - territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organized armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol.
Страница 169 - an activity that]: 1. Involve(s) violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States (or of any state or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or any state); 2.
Страница 26 - is surrendered or demanded is one of a political character or if he proves to the satisfaction of the police magistrate or the court before whom he is brought on habeas corpus, or to the Secretary of State that the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try to punish him for an offense of a political character.
Страница 27 - not two parties in the State, each seeking to impose the Government of their own choice on the other; for the party with whom the accused is identified. . . the party of anarchy, is the enemy of all Governments. Their efforts are directed primarily against the general body of citizens.
Страница 23 - if: (i) the offense for which extradition is requested is regarded by the requested Party as one of a political character; or (ii) the person sought proves that the request for his extradition has in fact been made with a view to try to punish him for an offense of a political character.
Страница 27 - [T]he expression in the Extradition Act ought (unless some better interpretation of it can be suggested) to be interpreted to mean that fugitive criminals are not to be surrendered for extradition crimes, if those crimes were incidental to and formed a part of political disturbances. 2
Страница 20 - within the scope of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, opened for signature at The Hague on 16 December 1970; (b) an offense within the scope of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, opened for signature at Montreal on 23 September 1971;

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