treaty-making

before his second-term treaty-making with the Soviets, Reagan's pragmatism had riled the self-appointed keepers of the right-wing flame.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

The Founding Fathers saw the treaty-making power as executive, not legislative power.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit 2010

In it, Eisenhower had asserted that “it would be a tragic error to adopt any amendment which would change our traditional treaty-making power or which would hamper the President in his constitutional responsibility to conduct foreign affairs.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

In it, Eisenhower had asserted that “it would be a tragic error to adopt any amendment which would change our traditional treaty-making power or which would hamper the President in his constitutional responsibility to conduct foreign affairs.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

The Founding Fathers saw the treaty-making power as executive, not legislative power.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit 2010

Allen attacked it as inappropriate because it presumed to advise the president on how he should exercise his treaty-making power, which the Senate had no jurisdiction to do.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

Allen attacked it as inappropriate because it presumed to advise the president on how he should exercise his treaty-making power, which the Senate had no jurisdiction to do.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

In 1998, for example, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and effectively confirmed its role as quality control for treaty-making.

The New Start Treaty: Time for a Careful Look 2010

In the end, concern for Southern trade and fear of federal treaty-making power—and, ultimately, of losing access to the Mississippi—weighed more heavily on the opposition than fear of a possible abolition-minded federal Congress.15

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Some of this treaty-making was pure hypocrisy; some of it, as in the case of Texas Indian agent Robert Neighbors, was earnest and well-meaning naïveté.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010