See the article on the Bricker Amendment for history of the relationship between treaty powers and Constitutional provisions.
Also in 1954, Ferguson proposed several amendments to the Bricker Amendment.
One would assume that no elected official could oppose the Bricker Amendment.
He supported returning offshore oil lands to the states, and voted in favor of the non-interventionist Bricker Amendment.
President Eisenhower publicly declares his opposition to the Bricker Amendment.
Debate begins on the Bricker Amendment in the Senate.
The amended Bricker Amendment fails on final passage, 61-30, losing by one vote.
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These concerns led to the Bricker Amendment of the 1950s, designed to restrict the treaty power.
The Bricker Amendment came up a single vote short of the two-thirds majority it needed.