Resolution relating to jurisdiction over the U.S. owned Canal Zone on the Isthmus of Panama.

Summary

Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible,except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) there be no cession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or tangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Consitituion.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 29 March 1974

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