United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
Encyclopedia
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of seven subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee
. The subcomittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin
, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church
and the Church Commission — lead to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Members, 112th Congress
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary is a standing committee of the United States Senate, of the United States Congress. The Judiciary Committee, with 18 members, is charged with conducting hearings prior to the Senate votes on confirmation of federal judges nominated by the...
. The subcomittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin
Sam Ervin
Samuel James "Sam" Ervin Jr. was a Democratic Senator from North Carolina from 1954 until 1974. A native of Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl...
, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church
Frank Church
Frank Forrester Church III was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981....
and the Church Commission — lead to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Jurisdiction
From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:- (1) Amendments to the United States Constitution
- (2) Civil rights oversight
- (3) Property rights
- (4) Federal-state relations
- (5) Individual rightsIndividual rightsGroup rights are rights held by a group rather than by its members separately, or rights held only by individuals within the specified group; in contrast, individual rights are rights held by individual people regardless of their group membership or lack thereof...
- (6) Commemorative Congressional Resolutions
- (7) Interstate compactInterstate compactAn interstate compact is an agreement between two or more states of the United States of America. Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution provides that "no state shall enter into an agreement or compact with another state" without the consent of Congress...
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See also
- United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil LibertiesUnited States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil LibertiesThe Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of five subcommittees of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary.-Jurisdiction:According to the official website:...