American empire requires a Caesar as well as the abandonment of the separation of powers to make liberty ... authority to withdraw from treaties. For starters, Congress is empowered by statute ...

But Congress doesn’t have to take this lying down. It has its own constitutional powers, which it can use not only to limit the president’s authority to exit treaties but to help make those limits ...

The Powers of War and Peace ... the president from using the treaty power as a back door to domestic legislation, which is properly the province of Congress. Indeed, some scholars argue that ...

President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a slate of loyalists as replacements has morphed into an enormous fight over ...

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.

Hulton Archive / Getty Images When ... the Allied powers—France, Britain, the U.S., and Italy—gathered in Paris to hammer out the details of a formal treaty that, they hoped, would ensure ...

In large part due to political polarization, the Senate often cannot muster the two-thirds support needed to approve major treaties. With Congress ... a separation of powers issue.

though Congress exercises considerable clout through defense budgets, ratifying treaties, and approving arms sales. Powers ...

In 1851, the first treaty was signed in Oregon between the Indians and the U.S. government. These historical photos offer a small ... Library of Congress, #cph 3c36575 Layered, reed mats were ...

The formal conclusion of the seven-year struggle against Great Britain came with the Treaty of Paris ... to the belligerent powers for the reestablishment of peace.” Congress then issued ...