THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION CANADA–UNITED STATES

1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-290
Author(s):  
Alec C. McEwen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Peaceful Resolution ◽  
Boundary Disputes ◽  
International Boundary ◽  
Regulatory Powers

The International Boundary Commission (IBC) is a permanent organization established by bilateral treaty to maintain an effective land and water boundary between Canada and the United States. It exercises regulatory powers under treaty and statute relating to boundary vista protection and transboundary construction. There have been boundary anomalies and ambiguous boundary descriptions. The peaceful resolution of several boundary disputes and uncertainties by the Commission has contributed to the preservation of national sovereignty. Its activities can be likened to those of an insurance underwriter.

Public Law 78: A Tangle of Domestic and International Relations

1965 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Creagan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Law ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Natural Movement ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Boundary ◽  
The Impact

The movement of Mexican laborers across the international boundary into the southwestern United States has been occurring since the establishment of a boundary in that area. It is a natural movement of worker toward the source of work. Interests of the governments involved have caused checks to be placed upon this movement of workers. Public Law 78 represented one of the recent attempts of the United States government, through co-operation with the Mexican government, to regulate the movement of migrant workers.In this article I will briefly trace the history of PL 78. The impact of this law upon Mexico and its relevance for United States relations with that country are of importance.

Private Property Rights: The Development of Takings in the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard J. Mangone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Public Nuisance ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Regulatory Powers ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractConstraints upon the uses of private property in the United States have increased very far beyond the doctrines of Grotius, Locke, Blackstone, and the framers of the Constitution. In the 19th century, both public nuisance limitations and eminent domain takings were applied to particular holdings, with the latter requiring compensation under the Fifth Amendment. The New Deal of the 1930s and the envirommental movement of the 1960s radically changed the relationship of government to private property. Sweeping economic reforms and the exercise of broad regulatory powers by public agencies for a clean environment and biological diversity led to a wholesale "taking" of private property without compensation. Recent cases of the Supreme Court involving wetlands and coastal property reveal the tensions that exist between sovereign power for the public good and the protection of individual property as a bulwark against arbitrary government.

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