This point is of overwhelming importance as it prevents the president from using the treaty power as a back door to domestic legislation, which is properly the province of Congress. Indeed ...

The Constitution also makes two of the president’s foreign affairs powers—making treaties and appointing diplomats—dependent on Senate approval. Congress also plays an oversight role.

D.C. (Paul Morigi/AP Images for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) On September 17, 1778, the newly formed United States Continental Congress dispatched a treaty commission ...

whether the Treaty Power[3] can be used to increase Congress’s legislative powers. That question is of immense practical importance. For example, the latest draft of the United Nations ...

The Constitution’s Treaty ... power to independent international organizations to make and enforce laws that would apply domestically, by international bureaucrats who are unaccountable to ...