This is how treaties are made. Just because a leader signs a treaty doesn't mean it's been implmented. It's up to the legislative body to retify a treaty. I don't really see the problem. How do you suppose the Congress approves a treaty before it's been negotiated?
On 6 Juli, 18:14, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds right to me. I don't see where the president can just make the > treaty without the consent of the US Senate. If I remember right it > takes both of them to approve the treaties. It is not really a done > deal if the president signs it unless the senate also approves it. > Guess they forgot that one. Of course they also tried to forget that > when it came to Kyoto for a while as the Dems tried to force the US to > implement a treaty that the Senate never ratified. Looks like another > one coming along. > > *The Constitution Imposes Severe Limits On A President's Treaty-Making > Powers: * Here's the relevant section > <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_Am...>: > > He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the > Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators > present concur; > > The Obama administration is finding that limitation inconvenient > <http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/05/obama-hey-lets-bypass-the-senat...>, > and so they are thinking of "temporarily bypassing" > <http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/us-russian-arms-negot...> > the Senate. Not on any important matter, just a little agreement with > the Russians on limiting nuclear arms. > > I looked carefully through the Constitution, and could not find any > provision that allows a president to bypass, temporarily or otherwise, > that limit on his treaty-making powers. > > Senator Byrd --- among others --- isn't going to like this one little bit. > - 8:08 AM, 6 July 2009 [link] > <http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2009_1.html#jrm7578> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
