!PLEASE HELP!!! Because treaties are the supreme law of the land, they could potentially become a vehicle for the federal government either to give away power to international actors or to accumulate power otherwise reserved for the states or individuals. One frequent objection to structural limits on the Treaty Clause power is that they do not give the federal government sufficient latitude to negotiate peace treaties with concessions.133 This objection posits that the federal government must have authority to preserve the union by getting out of war through any means and that it is absurd to think that ceding state territory is a violation of state sovereignty.134. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.83 Our Framers purposely designed it that way. at 63 (Vasan Kesavan has recently demonstrated, at great length, that the general understanding at the time of the framing was that treaties permitted the cession of American territory, including territory that was part of a state, without the consent of the state in which the territory was located. 2012), cert. An Ordinary Man, His Extraordinary Journey, President Harry S. Truman's White House Staff, National History Day Workshops from the National Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. In 1988, the Court said it is well established that no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution.'122. Treaty power refers to the Presidents constitutional authority to make treaties , with the advice and consent of the senate. Adopted Dec. 19, 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 181. (alteration in original) (quoting U.S. Const. .102, The Migratory Bird Treaty at issue in Missouri v. Holland was a non-self-executing treaty.103 Rather than challenge Congresss authority to pass a statute implementing this treaty, Missouri challenged the Presidents authority to make the treaty in the first place.104 Missouri argued that the Presidents power to make treaties was limited by the Tenth Amendment, such that a treaty could not address subject matter that did not fall within Congresss enumerated legislative powers.105 Justice Holmes phrased the question presented, with evident disdain, as, The treaty in question does not contravene any prohibitory words to be found in the Constitution. Bond v. United States, which is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, provides a concrete set of facts showing how pervasive the treaty power could be without meaningful constitutional restraints. . 48. Missouri v. Holland has been viewed as the seminal case on the federal governments treaty power for decades. In the words of Justice Kennedy: The Framers split the atom of sovereignty.30 That is, the Framers ingeniously divided governmental power through various mechanisms, such as the separation of powers and federalism. Id. (emphasis omitted) (quoting Henkin, supra note 102, at 190). The first power implicates a treatys creation, while the latter two involve a treatys implementation. The Senate maintains several powers to itself: It ratifies treaties by a two-thirds supermajority vote and confirms the appointments of the President by a majority vote. 45 [hereinafter Chemical Weapons Convention]. According to that professor, The necessary and proper clause originally contained expressly the power to enforce treaties but it was stricken as superfluous. Id. . But even putting aside this Tenth Amendment textual argument, there are significant structural arguments in favor of limiting the Presidents Treaty Clause power. Declare war. (internal quotation marks omitted). Raise and provide public money and oversee its proper expenditure. . 47. So to test the limits on the Presidents power to make self-executing treaties, make one further assumption: that these hypothetical self-executing treaties cover some areas reserved for the states under our system of dual sovereignty. 156. Treaties are probably the most prevalent mechanism by which domestic law adopts international law. how to Appropriate Funds (much money will be spent for what purpose) One of the important powers of the senate is that it must approve. !PLEASE HELP! 18 Pa. Cons. 18 U.S.C. !PLEASE HELP! 23. There are critical limits on the Presidents power to make treaties: (1) two-thirds of the Senate must approve of the treaty; (2) the treaty cannot violate an independent constitutional bar; and (3) the treaty cannot disrupt our constitutional structure by giving away sovereignty reserved to the states. Hope it helped! 155. 28 U.S.C. . 164. In observing that a President could abuse the treaty power for his personal gain if the President alone possessed this power, Hamilton stated: The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.48. In his 2005 Harvard Law Review article Executing the Treaty Power, Professor Nicholas Rosenkranz deftly presented both textual and structural arguments for [the Presidents] Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties.149 He then reasoned that a Law[] . For example, if the President, with Senate approval, entered into a self-executing treaty that banned all political speech, that treaty would be invalid as contrary to the First Amendments Free Speech Clause. The Constitution gives each branch powers that limit the powers of the other two. . 102. John Jay saw this as an advantage: those who best understand our national interests would be the ones voting on treaties.36 In contrast, Jay warned against involving the popular assembly in the treaty power,37 and Hamilton explicitly argued that the House of Representatives should not be included in the treaty-making process.38. United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 552 (1995). The Senate does not ratify treaties. 316, 407 (1819). Although Congress could rely on one of its enumerated powers besides that arising from the Necessary and Proper Clause such as that laid out in the Commerce Clause the more important question is whether the existence of a treaty can ever enhance Congresss implementation powers or whether the Necessary and Proper Clause always limits Congresss power to implement a treaty. In any event, there are good arguments to impose additional limits on Congresss power to implement treaties, and thus to reject Justice Holmess statement. What does the judicial branch do with laws? Holden v. Joy, 84 U.S. (17 Wall.) 60. The Constitution gives to the 179. Instead, they reserved the unenumerated powers to the states. .); Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898, 924 (1997) (finding that exercises of federal power that violate[] the principle of state sovereignty cannot be proper for carrying into Execution the federal governments enumerated powers). United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941); see also Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1, 18 n.35 (1957) (plurality opinion) (citing Darby, 312 U.S. at 12425). Two-thirds of the Senate must approve of a treaty before it goes into effect. then the entire federal structure, apart from a few fortuitously worded prohibitions on federal action in Article I, Section 9, is a President and two-thirds of a quorum of senators (and perhaps a bona fide demand from a foreign government) away from destruction.125. Head Money Cases, 112 U.S. 580, 598 (1884). VII. Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416, 432 (1920). I, 8, art. 67016771 (2012). The treaty in Missouri v. Holland was a non-self-executing treaty,111 so it was an agreement between nations that imposed no binding domestic obligations on states or individuals.112 A non-self-executing treaty can be a promise to enact certain legislation; [s]uch a promise constitutes a binding international legal commitment, but it does not, in itself, constitute domestic law.113 So in Missouri v. Holland, the President may have promised other countries that the United States would enact migratory bird legislation, but the Presidents promise itself was only an agreement made between nations.114. The separation of powers and federalism, therefore, are a manifestation of the Framers rejection of unchecked government power. 143. at 432, on general grounds, id. Gary Lawson & Guy Seidman, The Jeffersonian Treaty Clause, 2006 U. Ill. L. Rev. 21. Id. The Supreme Court has also repeatedly recognized that our constitutional structure prevents circumvention of enumerated limits on federal power, even if the Constitutions text does not explicitly prohibit a certain exercise of federal power. 124. The United States agreed in the Convention, however, to enact domestic laws addressing chemical weapons.178 And Congress purported to enact such laws through the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998. . The facts of Missouri v. Holland are striking and provide a roadmap for how the federal government could use treaties to aggrandize power otherwise reserved for the states: In 1913, Congress enacted a statute to regulate the hunting of migratory birds. Mayor of New Orleans v. United States, 35 U.S. (10 Pet.) (Select all that apply) .44. 98. 75, at 449 (Alexander Hamilton) (Clinton Rossiter ed., 2003) (arguing that the treaty power was not necessarily legislative or executive, because a treaty did not prescribe rules for the regulation of the society or require execution of the laws it was the power to enter into contracts with foreign nations). The Federalist No. . This competing structural argument also assumes a doubtful premise: that the federal government must have unlimited powers to implement treaties it believes are in the public interest. 67. Instead, the Senate As Jay remarked: The power of making treaties is an important one, especially as it relates to war, peace, and commerce; and it should not be delegated but in such a mode, and with such precautions, as will afford the highest security that it will be exercised by men the best qualified for the purpose, and in the manner most conducive to the public good.39, Hamilton, too, did not trust the President alone to wield the hefty treaty power, as he feared that one could betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth.40, At the same time, the Framers realized it was impractical to expect a collective body, like Congress or the Senate, to negotiate the minutiae of treaties. It may not be prudent for a President to breach treaties or to enter into treaties that he knows will be ignored. And it needed to be precisely calibrated because treaties would constitute the supreme law of the land in the United States.45 By dividing the treaty power first by reserving unenumerated powers to the states, and then by housing the federal treaty power in the executive branch with a Senate veto the Framers sought to check the use of this significant lawmaking tool. . . The President is the Commander in Chief, can grant Pardons, appoints and commissions Officers of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate, makes recess appointments, must take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and can make Treaties with the approval of two-thirds of the Senate.92 But nowhere does the Constitution give the President a general power to do whatever he believes is necessary for the public interest. 2. 1, 44 n.158. So it is a non-self-executing treaty that does not automatically have effect as domestic law.57, The U.S. Senate ratified the Convention in 1997.58 A year later, Congress acted to implement the Convention by creating domestic law that would prohibit individuals from violating the Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998.59. Besides this textual argument, there is an even more potent, structural argument for limits on Congresss power to implement treaties. 38. at 1900 (emphasis omitted) (quoting Mayor of New Orleans v. United States, 35 U.S. (10 Pet.) The United States Constitution provides that the president shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur (Article II, section 2). In these hypothetical scenarios, the President would not have simply made a promise among nations. . According to them, the Treaty Clause is not an independent substantive font of executive power, but instead a vehicle for implementing otherwise-granted national powers in the international arena. Id. Treaty Power Law and Legal Definition. The Third Circuit held that Bond lacked standing to raise this argument,78 and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed in finding that Bond did have standing to challenge the Act as applied to her.79 On remand, the Third Circuit rejected Bonds constitutional argument on the merits, finding that Congress had authority to enact the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act under the Necessary and Proper Clause.80 The Third Circuit quoted Justice Holmess 1920 opinion, Missouri v. Holland, for the proposition that, if a treaty is valid, there can be no dispute about the validity of the statute [implementing it] under Article 1, Section 8, as a necessary and proper means to execute the powers of the Government. 170. Even if the Senate ratifies a treaty, it will not be valid I, 8, cl. The This simple, revolutionary idea shaped our nation. See, e.g., Martin S. Flaherty, Are We to Be a Nation? And virtually every important thinker who influenced the founding generation thought of treaty making as an executive function.34, Yet just as the President retains a veto power over Congresss legislative power,35 the Senate retains a veto over the Presidents treaty power by preventing adoption of a treaty unless two thirds of the Senate approves. treaties and presidential appointments. Whether one couches this as a Tenth Amendment or a structural argument, the basic point is the people, acting in their sovereign capacity, delegated only limited powers to the federal government while reserving the remaining sovereign powers to the states or individuals. But even before the Bill of Rights was created, the Constitution painstakingly enumerated the limited powers of the federal government on the basis that states would retain authority in a system of dual sovereignty. 70. See Garcia v. San Antonio Metro. As the Court has reminded us in the past two decades, there are still limits on this power. The Framers explicitly enumerated the powers of the federal government, and all unenumerated powers were reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.117 If the states retain some sphere of sovereign authority over which the federal government has no power, then all attempts by the federal government to infringe on this sovereign state authority should be unconstitutional regardless of whether the federal government tries to do so through the Presidents Treaty Clause power or Congresss enumerated powers. A treaty is primarily a compact between independent nations.5 Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives the President the power to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.6 And the Supremacy Clause provides that treaties, like statutes, count as the supreme law of the land.7 Some treaties automatically have effect as domestic law8 these are called self-executing treaties. Id. 133. 139. See Chemical Weapons Convention, supra note 53, art. Individual liberty is also preserved by divided government: By denying any one government complete jurisdiction over all the concerns of public life, federalism protects the liberty of the individual from arbitrary power.89, So the people, acting as sovereign, only delegated to the federal government certain enumerated powers. 2013). 169. They correctly believed that societies could not magically progress to a point where humans constantly looked out for a common good divorced from self-interest. Approves treaties Approves presidential appointments Impeaches and tries federal officers Overrides a president's veto 112. Under the framework set forth in this Essay, the President may have had the Treaty Clause power to make the Migratory Bird Treaty, because it was a non-self-executing treaty. Assn v. Garamendi, 539 U.S. 396, 414 (2003) (noting that the President has a vast share of responsibility for the conduct of our foreign relations))) (quoting Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 610 (1952) (Frankfurter, J., concurring))). 229F(1)(A); see also Chemical Weapons Convention, supra note 53, art. The Constitution gives the Senate the power to approve, by a two-thirds vote, treaties negotiated by the executive branch. The Federalist No. But the governments power emanates from the sovereign will of the people. 134. 45 (James Madison), supra note 34, at 289. v. U.S.), 2004 I.C.J. 75 (Alexander Hamilton), supra note 34, at 451. Does the House have the power to approve foreign treaties? 140. !PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!! . 1, 1; U.S. Const. 1350 (2012) (The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.). FILL IN THE BLANKS USING THE INFORMATION ON THE FIRST PAGE, 500 W US Hwy 24 Missouri v. Holland treated the Tenth Amendment as essentially an unenforceable ink blot172 or rather, an invisible ink blot.173 Likewise, the Reid v. Covert plurality distinguished Missouri v. Holland by citing to the case that perniciously declared that the Tenth Amendment was but a truism.174 However, the Rehnquist Courts revitalization of structural constitutional limits to federal authority in Lopez, Morrison, New York, Printz, and other cases rejects the view that this Amendment can be read out of the Constitution. 64 (John Jay), supra note 34, at 390. Sovereignty should be the touchstone of any debate over the limits on the treaty power. The HarryS. Truman Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Libraries system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration,a federal agency. !PLEASE HELP!!!! Some of the same concerns addressed in the previous part about the Presidents Treaty Clause power will also be present in analyzing Congresss power to implement treaties, but the two are not necessarily intertwined. 36(1)(b)). Professors Lawson and Seidman may have put it best: If the Treaty Clause does give the President and the Senate power to alter state capitals, . The Senate has the power to approve it with two-third vote. 147. develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons or use them.55 It further requires signatory states to prohibit individuals from acting in a manner that would violate the Convention if the individuals were a signatory state.56 But the Convention does not contain self-executing provisions that obligate states to impose these duties on individuals. Part I starts with first principles of our constitutional structure, examining sovereignty, the treaty power, and foreign affairs. The Chemical Weapons Convention is a non-self-executing treaty, just as the Migratory Bird Treaty was in Missouri v. Holland. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 635 (1952) (Jackson, J., concurring in the judgment). 4. 51 (James Madison), supra note 34, at 319. See The Federalist No. There are critical limits on the Presidents power to make treaties: (1) two-thirds of the Senate must approve of the treaty; (2) the treaty cannot violate an independent constitutional bar; and (3) the treaty cannot disrupt our constitutional structure by giving away sovereignty reserved to the states. In other words, Congress can pass laws that give the President the resources to exercise his executive power to negotiate and make treaties, but this authority does not necessarily give Congress the power to implement a treaty already made. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.84 States, moreover, retain a residuary and inviolable sovereignty.85 If there were any doubt about that proposition at the Founding, the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights clarified: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.86 Thus, [a]s every schoolchild learns, our Constitution establishes a system of dual sovereignty between the States and the Federal Government.87, The Supreme Court in the first Bond case, dealing with Bonds standing, expounded on these principles. The writers of the U.S. Constitution didn't want to put too much power into the hands of one person. granted, 133 S. Ct. 978 (2013). Thus, our fledgling nation had to project strength to the rest of the world while remaining disentangled from conflicts among other countries. Part III therefore argues that the President cannot make any treaties displacing state sovereignty and that the Necessary and Proper Clause power does not give Congress the authority to implement a treaty in a way that displaces state sovereignty. That, however, may be an overreading of Missouri v. Holland, as discussed further below in Part IV. 2701 (West 2000 & Supp. 31. 149. 115. at 1878 n.52 (collecting authorities). Apr. But it bears mentioning that one could imagine a middle position that avoids some of the deleterious consequences of limiting the Presidents Treaty Clause power. 171. The Federalist No. Nomination of Robert H. Bork to Be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before the S. Comm. The Third Circuit in Bond considered the governments Necessary and Proper Clause claim only, declining to reach any arguments about other enumerated powers like the Commerce Clause.179 But it is worth briefly considering the Commerce Clause, because since 1937, the Commerce Clause has been the enumerated power most often used to justify congressional acts. is one of limited powers. Others have tried to rehabilitate Missouri v. Hollands statement about the Necessary and Proper Clause with a competing structural argument.159 According to this argument, Congress must have the power to implement treaties, or else the President could enter into agreements with foreign nations and have no power to enforce these agreements.161 This result, though, is not absurd.162 As Rosenkranz highlighted, [a]ll non-self-executing treaties rely on the subsequent acquiescence of the House of Representatives something that our treaty partners can never be certain will be forthcoming. So when a foreign nation enters into a non-self-executing treaty with the United States, there is always a possibility that the treaty will not be implemented in the United States even if Congress had the authority under the Commerce Clause or another of its enumerated powers to pass the implementing statute. Congress repealed the existing federal crime for using chemical weapons, which had defined chemical weapon to mean only a weapon that is designed or intended to cause widespread death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or precursors of toxic or poisonous chemicals.60 Although that repealed definition was tailored to cover weapons of mass destruction, the new federal crime for using chemical weapons61 swept in many more substances. Part II briefly lays out the facts in Bond v. United States, which raises many difficult issues that will be discussed in the remainder of the Essay. 65. The president has the sole power to negotiate treaties. 81. The Court, however, has suggested that this may not be absurd. oversteps the boundary between federal and state authority.127, Printz v. United States128 subsequently built upon New York in holding that the federal government cannot circumvent [New Yorks] prohibition by conscripting the States officers directly.129 Printz reasoned that such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.130 Just recently, the Court relied heavily on New York to invalidate conditional spending provisions of the Affordable Care Act.131 Although Congresss Spending Clause power does not say anything explicit about conditional spending, the Court recognized that coercive conditional spending would undermine the status of the States as independent sovereigns in our federal system.132. . Id. 1867, 187173 & nn.1925 (2005). Consequently, the Supreme Court should reverse Bonds conviction. The Reid plurality quoted an 1890 Supreme Court precedent for the proposition that a treaty cannot take away state territory without the states consent: The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States. 125. 57. !PLEASE HELP!!! 119. Executive Powers More fundamentally, a non-self-executing treaty might never violate the Tenth Amendment or infringe on state sovereignty. See John Locke, Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration 137138, 141142 (Ian Shapiro ed., Yale Univ. 101. The previous part dealt with limits on the Presidents Treaty Clause power to create a treaty in the first place. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution . II(1)(a). 75 (Alexander Hamilton), supra note 34, at 450. Note, however, that Senators were originally chosen by state legislatures rather than through direct election. . The people in turn formed our government. United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000). . See Lawson & Seidman, supra note 34, at 15. . 211, 243 (1872). Our Constitution, and its structure devised by the Framers, does not allow this destruction of state sovereignty. Id. Specific powers given to Congress are the right to determine member seating and rules of procedure, the powers to impose taxes, borrow money, provide for military forces, regulate interstate commerce, declare war, initiate impeachment proceedings through the House of Representatives, and adjudicate impeachment through the Senate. After all, the President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations.115 Treaties are agreements like contracts, and all law students learn that contracts can be breached for many reasons, including efficiency. Cf. Yet under Justice Holmess view, the legislative powers of Congress are not fixed by the Constitution, but rather may be increased by treaty.154 It would be a remarkable evasion of limited constitutional government if a foreign nations agreement, with the President and two-thirds of the Senate, could allow Congress to exercise powers otherwise reserved to the states. 1, 57. The Federalist No. Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416, 43334 (1920). But if that were so if state sovereign powers were a null set then the Tenth Amendment would be superfluous, as would the whole of Article I, Section 8. !PLEASE HELP! It can exercise authority over no subjects, except those which have been delegated to it. When foreign policy issues take center stage in American politics, much of the focus tends to be on the executive branch. Id. Ann. 180. See, e.g., United States v. Comstock, 130 S. Ct. 1949, 196768 (2010) (Kennedy, J., concurring in the judgment) (It is of fundamental importance to consider whether essential attributes of state sovereignty are compromised by the assertion of federal power under the Necessary and Proper Clause . !PLEASE HELP!!! The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Medelln v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491, 504 (2008) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Chemical Weapons Convention, supra note 53, art. See Curtiss-Wright, 299 U.S. at 315 (noting the fundamental differences between the powers of the federal government in respect of foreign or external affairs and those in respect of domestic or internal affairs). Under Morrison, therefore, the Commerce Clause did not give Congress authority to criminalize Bonds acts through the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998. Congress has the power to: Make laws. Bond v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 2355, 2364 (2011). II, 2) (internal quotation marks omitted). The consent of the House of Representatives is also necessary for the ratification of trade agreements and the confirmation of the Vice President. In light of the breadth of Congresss implementing statute for the Chemicals Weapons Convention, it should come as no surprise that it was used to prosecute someone for a domestic dispute involving wholly local conduct. Even if the Senate ratifies a treaty, it will not be valid unless the president then approves the Senate version of the treaty. See id. For nearly a century, the touchstone of this analysis has been one line from Missouri v. Holland: If the treaty is valid there can be no dispute about the validity of the [implementing] statute under Article I, 8, as a necessary and proper means to execute the powers of the Government.143 So according to Justice Holmes, the Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress authority to pass any legislation implementing a treaty. The Federalist No. But the Necessary and Proper Clause combined with a treaty would not, under Rosenkranzs textual argument. !PLEASE HELP!!! Instead, he and the Senate would have enacted binding domestic law through treaties. Stated differently: just because the President enters into an agreement with Senate approval, it does not follow that the treaty will be implemented, so the inability to implement certain treaties is wholly consistent with the nature of non-self-executing treaties. 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