All Terrain Vehicle Safety: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3991 ... March 16, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 397 pages |
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... concerns of owners who do not wish to keep these dangerous vehicles . Consequently , the legislation before us today , H.R. 3991 , spon- sored by my colleague and good friend Mr. Barton , goes one step further in resolving the ...
... concerns of owners who do not wish to keep these dangerous vehicles . Consequently , the legislation before us today , H.R. 3991 , spon- sored by my colleague and good friend Mr. Barton , goes one step further in resolving the ...
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... concerns about the bill that I will express when the time comes . It seems to me that the agreement signed by the CPSC and by the Justice Department and ATV manufacturers goes part way to what Mr. Barton wants to do . I am not sure we ...
... concerns about the bill that I will express when the time comes . It seems to me that the agreement signed by the CPSC and by the Justice Department and ATV manufacturers goes part way to what Mr. Barton wants to do . I am not sure we ...
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... concern for ATV operators , I cannot support it in its present form . H.R. 3991 inhibits the Consent Decree that could be made final between the CPSC and the ATV manufacturers pending approval of the court . In short , the set- tlement ...
... concern for ATV operators , I cannot support it in its present form . H.R. 3991 inhibits the Consent Decree that could be made final between the CPSC and the ATV manufacturers pending approval of the court . In short , the set- tlement ...
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... concerns . I believe it is important to explore the ramifications of a legislatively - required refund . There are ... concern about all terrain vehicles for a long time , and I would like to commend you publicly for your tenacious ...
... concerns . I believe it is important to explore the ramifications of a legislatively - required refund . There are ... concern about all terrain vehicles for a long time , and I would like to commend you publicly for your tenacious ...
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... concerned about ATV safety since July 15 , 1984 , a day that changed my life forever . I had never seen an ATV before that day , and now they are the stuff of my nightmares . My family was visiting acquaintances on their lake front home ...
... concerned about ATV safety since July 15 , 1984 , a day that changed my life forever . I had never seen an ATV before that day , and now they are the stuff of my nightmares . My family was visiting acquaintances on their lake front home ...
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30 percent accidents action adult-sized ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES REPORTED American Honda Attorney ATV distributors ATV industry ATV manufacturers ATV operators ATV safety ATV Task Force ATV's BARTON bill Bill of Attainder BROWN & PLATT Chairman children under 16 COLLISION HIT TREE Commissioner Congress Congressman Consumer Product Safety costs court CPSC CUTLER DANNEMEYER dealers DEATHS ASSOCIATED DRIVER 22 Drivers 16 due process FAGE FSEX FCITY Federal Final Consent Decree FLORIO four-wheeled ATVs FSUM FTYPEVEH hearing HIT BY CAR Honda Motor Co IIIT issue LANDED ON VICTIM legislation NIELSON OVERTURNED LANDED PERIOD JAN preliminary consent decree Product Safety Act Product Safety Commission protect purchasers questions recall refund requirements resale resold ride rider risk of injury SCANLON scenario separation of powers settlement staff SVIA TERRAIN CHG terrain vehicles three-wheeled ATVs VICTIM DRIVER voluntary standard warnings WHEELS 3 WHEELS WHEELS DRIVER 14 WHEELS PASSENGER WIIEELS WILLENS
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Page 188 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 127 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land.
Page 190 - It is agreed on all sides, that the powers properly belonging to one of the departments ought not to be directly and completely administered by either of the other departments. It is equally evident, that none of them ought to possess, directly or indirectly, an overruling influence over the others, in the administration of their respective powers.
Page 126 - Webster, in his familiar definition, "the general law, a law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial," so "that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities under the protection of the general rules...
Page 198 - It is manifest that it was not left to the legislative power to enact any process which might be devised. The article is a restraint on the legislative as well as on the executive and judicial powers of the government, and cannot be so construed as to leave congress free to make any process 'due process of law
Page 188 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 149 - We are in danger of forgetting that a strong public desire to improve the public condition is not enough to warrant achieving the desire by a shorter cut than the constitutional way of paying for the change.
Page 188 - Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
Page 127 - The meaning is that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land. If this were so, acts of attainder, bills of pains and penalties, acts of confiscation, acts reversing judgments, and acts directly transferring one man's estate to another, legislative judgments, decrees and forfeitures in all possible...
Page 146 - must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.