If the federal Treaty Clause power could violate state sovereignty, it would disrupt our constitutional structure and encroach on state sovereignty just like in New York, Printz, and NFIB v. Sebelius. Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803). Opened for signature Jan. 13, 1993, 1974 U.N.T.S. Bond will have to resolve whether the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998 can be applied to Bonds particular local conduct in the midst of a domestic dispute. So when the President makes any promise that the United States will take future action that can only be undertaken by other governmental actors, the President never knows for certain whether the United States will follow through and honor this promise. Nomination of Robert H. Bork to Be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before the S. Comm. Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1, 1718 (1957) (plurality opinion) (quoting Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 U.S. 258, 267 (1890) (internal quotation marks omitted)). and those arising from the nature of the government itself, and of that of the States.121 The recognition of structural limitations on the treaty power is not just a nineteenth-century concept. Thomas Jefferson, Manual of Parliamentary Practice 110 (Clark & Maynard 1870) (1801) (emphasis added). Its purpose is to achiev[e] effective progress towards general and complete disarmament . .44. The most commonly cited enumerated powers supporting treaties are (1) the Presidents Treaty Clause power, (2) Congresss Commerce Clause power, and (3) Congresss Necessary and Proper Clause power. Two-thirds of the Senate must approve of a treaty before it goes into effect. 47 (James Madison), supra note 34, at 298. See supra section III.B.1, pp. 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. 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. See e.g., United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987) (A facial challenge to a legislative Act . 4 (John Jay), supra note 34, at 40 (emphasis omitted). In any event, even if there are certain hypotheticals involving war that may increase the treaty power, the sovereignty of the people and the sovereignty they duly delegated to the states at the Founding should not be discarded lightly. !PLEASE HELP! at 1900 (emphasis omitted) (quoting Mayor of New Orleans v. United States, 35 U.S. (10 Pet.) 1867, 187173 & nn.1925 (2005). The Chemical Weapons Convention is a non-self-executing treaty, just as the Migratory Bird Treaty was in Missouri v. Holland. Hope it helped! But cf. 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. II(1)(a). Apr. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304, 319 (1936) (quoting 10 Annals of Cong. PLEASE HELP! This Essay argues to the contrary: the President cannot make a treaty that displaces the sovereign powers reserved to the states.101. III, 1. 60. 16. This simple, revolutionary idea shaped our nation. A 1907 memorandum approved by the Secretary of State stated that the limitations on the treaty power that necessitate legislative implementation may "be found in the !PLEASE HELP!!! !PLEASE HELP! We accept the proposition that a fully informed eighteenth-century audience would have been startled to discover that the federal government had no power to cede territory, even as part of a peace settlement. (footnote omitted)). 142. !PLEASE HELP!!!! . Under this view, the President could enter into a non-self-executing treaty to cede state territory, and then Congress would have the power to implement that treaty in light of war concerns. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779, 838 (1995) (Kennedy, J., concurring). Note, however, that Senators were originally chosen by state legislatures rather than through direct election. Approve presidential appointments. That is precisely why the Court subsequently backtracked from its truism comment, noting that [t]he Amendment expressly declares the constitutional policy that Congress may not exercise power in a fashion that impairs the States integrity or their ability to function effectively in a federal system.124 One possible implication of the Courts truism remark is that there are no powers reserved exclusively to the states. (emphasis omitted)). . 48. Congress uses a two-step process for approving expenditures. the rights reserved to the states; for surely the President and Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way.118. 125. !PLEASE HELP!!! 19. Dual sovereignty therefore properly constrains the federal governments treaty power. Adopted Dec. 19, 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. As Thomas Jefferson explained, the treaty power must have meant to except . art. Self-executing treaties will therefore raise questions about the Presidents Treaty Clause power but not Congresss power to implement these treaties. How the Court resolves Bond could have enormous implications for our constitutional structure. 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. Instead, he and the Senate would have enacted binding domestic law through treaties. If no enumerated power justifies the creation or implementation of a treaty, the federal government is acting beyond its delegated authority, thus violating the sovereignty of the states and the people. Id. 166. !PLEASE HELP!!! . Other treaties constitute international law commitments, but they do not by themselves function as binding federal law9 these are called non-self-executing treaties. See Medelln v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491, 50405 (2008). Can prove laws to be against the_Constitution_. Id. Rosenkranz, supra note 13, at 1878; see id. The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction53 is an international arms-control agreement. Gary Lawson & Guy Seidman, The Jeffersonian Treaty Clause, 2006 U. Ill. L. Rev. granted, 133 S. Ct. 978 (2013). 57. The Federalist No. Failing to judicially enforce the limits on federal government power, and the power held by individual branches, is tantamount to ignoring the sovereign will of the people who created government in the first place. 143. It largely tracks the structural argument for limits on the Presidents power to make treaties.153 Congresss powers are explicitly enumerated in Article I of the Constitution, a major check and balance created by the Framers. 3 (John Jay), supra note 34, at 36. See, e.g., Rosenkranz, supra note 13 (arguing for limits on Congresss powers to implement treaties). New York v. United States held that the federal government cannot commandeer state governments into passing or enforcing a federal regulatory program.126 New York rightly explained: [J]ust as a cup may be half empty or half full, it makes no difference whether one views the question at issue in these cases as one of ascertaining the limits of the power delegated to the Federal Government under the affirmative provisions of the Constitution or one of discerning the core of sovereignty retained by the States under the Tenth Amendment. CQ Transcriptions, Sen. Chuck Schumer Holds a Hearing on the Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wash. Post (July 14, 2009, 4:24 PM), http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071402630.html. First, Missouri v. Holland may have turned on the international character of the regulated subject matter that is, migratory birds. 529 U.S. 598 (2000); see Rosenkranz, supra note 13, at 187172 & nn.19, 22 (collecting sources). !PLEASE HELP!!! In any event, there are good arguments to impose additional limits on Congresss power to implement treaties, and thus to reject Justice Holmess statement. 62. 31). In effect, such construction would permit amendment of that document in a manner not sanctioned by Article V. The prohibitions of the Constitution were designed to apply to all branches of the National Government and they cannot be nullified by the Executive or by the Executive and the Senate combined.97, In the Bond litigation, the Obama Administration appears to agree that treaties cannot violate the Constitutions express prohibitions (such as those in the Bill of Rights).98, In contrast, the Administration appears to argue that the treaty power contains no subject-matter-based limitations.99 This is the predominant view in the legal academy: that there are essentially no other subject-matter limits on the Presidents power to make treaties.100 Under this majority view, which stems from Missouri v. Holland, a treaty can exercise power otherwise reserved to the states. 78. See Lawson & Seidman, supra note 133, at 63. If the federal government could evade the limits on its powers by making or implementing treaties, then our system of dual sovereignty would be grievously undermined. 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.). Bond v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 978 (2013). 65. on the Judiciary, 100th Cong. Id. The Supreme Court is on the cusp of deciding another important case about the treaty power: Bond v. United States.27 Bond will test whether an international treaty gave Congress the authority to create a federal law criminalizing conduct from a domestic dispute involving wholly local conduct. 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. Missouri v. Holland has been viewed as the seminal case on the federal governments treaty power for decades. !PLEASE HELP! 153. art. But Americans did not give their federal government carte blanche to create whatever laws the federal government chooses. -Second, it !PLEASE HELP!!! 175. Similarly, Congress has no constitutional authority to implement a treaty through legislation that takes away any portion of the sovereignty reserved to the states. Congress has the power to: Make laws. Namely, there could have to be a sufficient nexus between the treaty and Congresss implementing legislation. 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. The first power implicates a treatys creation, while the latter two involve a treatys implementation. 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. to make treaties would cover, for example, laws appropriating money for the negotiation of treaties.150 But it would not include the implementation of treaties already made. 151 As Rosenkranz correctly noted, a treaty and the Power . But even with a proper understanding of the limits on these treaty powers, the Court still could have rejected a facial challenge to the Migratory Bird Treaty or its implementing Act. The Roberts Court, too, has continued to enforce structural limits on the balance of power between the federal and state governments.175 These developments may very well render Missouri v. Holland a doctrinal anachronism that stare decisis should not save.176. 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. Under this Essays framework, the President may have had the Treaty Clause power to make the Chemical Weapons Convention. -First, it passes an authorization bill that establishes a program and says how much can be spent on the program. 165. . 112. One would still have to determine whether there were limits on (1) the Presidents power to make self-executing treaties or (2) Congresss authority to legislatively implement treaties. The Federalist No. 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. 5. !PLEASE HELP! Holland, 252 U.S. at 43334 (The only question is whether [the Migratory Bird Treaty Act] is forbidden by some invisible radiation from the general terms of the Tenth Amendment.). 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. Treaties are probably the most prevalent mechanism by which domestic law adopts international law. [the] Power . 2, 1992). 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. . Part IV applies this Essays thesis and considers whether Justice Holmess 1920 Missouri v. Holland28 opinion must be overruled. Such legislation would lack constitutional authority just like the Gun-Free Schools Zone Act invalidated in United States v. Lopez145 or the parts of the Violence Against Women Act struck down in Morrison.146 The Supreme Court has not had to clarify how closely the implementing legislation must fit with the treaty. 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. Whiskey Rebellion 211, 243 (1872). That realization, though, does not address other important questions about treaties. The Senate has the sole power to confirm those of the Presidents appointments that require consent, and to ratify treaties. . XYZ Affair Consequently, when the federal government acts to create or implement a treaty, the Constitution requires that it do so pursuant to an enumerated power. 67. Cf. 81. The Federalist No. That is precisely why the Tenth Amendment and the Constitutions structure place limits on the Presidents power to make treaties. But the ultimate concern of a Tenth Amendment limit is preserving state sovereignty as a structural principle, as opposed to having to answer whether the Treaty Clause grants substantive powers. I, 8, art. United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549, 552 (1995). 170. Both involve the application of a federal statute to a wholly local assault covered by state criminal law. 36. 40. at 432, on general grounds, id. 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. But even putting aside this Tenth Amendment textual argument, there are significant structural arguments in favor of limiting the Presidents Treaty Clause power. In many ways, this arrangement would resemble the exception Professors Lawson and Seidman recognized regarding the Presidents Treaty Clause power,167 but it would just require Congress to act in conjunction with the President. v. Sebelius, 132 S. Ct. 2566 (2012). The writers of the U.S. Constitution didn't want to put too much power into the hands of one person. Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416, 43334 (1920). Under a Tenth Amendment limit, it does not matter whether the Treaty Clause possibly grants some substantive powers beyond the Presidents other enumerated powers the President still could not displace reserved state sovereignty even if the Treaty Clause would otherwise grant him additional substantive powers. Jay understood that sometimes treaties must be made in secret, and the executive is the branch best positioned to keep negotiation of treaties secret.41 The President was therefore allowed to manage the business of intelligence in such manner as prudence may suggest by negotiating treaties, although the President must, in forming them, act by the advice and consent of the Senate.42 This, Jay realized, provides that our negotiations for treaties shall have every advantage which can be derived from talents, information, integrity, and deliberate investigations, on the one hand, and from secrecy and dispatch on the other.43 Hamilton, too, noted the comparative advantage that the President had over Congress in this regard: The qualities elsewhere detailed as indispensable in the management of foreign negotiations point out the executive as the most fit agent in those transactions . 27. at 152 (quoting Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416, 432 (1920)). And even if a treaty fell within an enumerated power, the federal government would still act unconstitutionally if an independent provision of the Constitution, such as the Bill of Rights, affirmatively denied the authority. at 265961 (joint dissent). Either way, we must determine whether any of the . As the Court has reminded us in the past two decades, there are still limits on this power. !PLEASE HELP!!! . 1996) (footnotes omitted). The president has the sole power to negotiate treaties. U.S. . See id. 1. 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. 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. United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941). Regardless of whether this is viewed as a Tenth Amendment problem or an enumerated powers dispute, the bottom line is the federal government cannot aggrandize power otherwise reserved to the states. 64 (John Jay), supra note 34, at 389. 116. 539, 619 (1842)). (internal quotation marks omitted). If the ultimate power resides with the people, then the people control government, rather than the government controlling the people. 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). See id. . Holden v. Joy, 84 U.S. (17 Wall.) . It may not be prudent for a President to breach treaties or to enter into treaties that he knows will be ignored. For example, Congress has the power to tax and spend, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and to declare war.90 The Constitution therefore withhold[s] from Congress a plenary police power that would authorize enactment of every type of legislation.91. Besides this textual argument, there is an even more potent, structural argument for limits on Congresss power to implement treaties. Medelln v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491, 525 (2008). Indeed, James Madison remarked that [t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . With treaties potentially supplanting federal and state governmental authority, the President and Senate should carefully scrutinize all treaties, as a policy matter. !PLEASE HELP!!! Thus, our fledgling nation had to project strength to the rest of the world while remaining disentangled from conflicts among other countries. See Lawson & Seidman, supra note 34, at 15. 397. 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. !PLEASE HELP! 23. Two-thirds of the Senate must approve of a treaty before it goes into effect. The President thus may have had power to make the Chemical Weapons Convention, but Congress almost certainly did not have the power to enact a statute criminalizing Bonds wholly local conduct pertaining to a domestic dispute. Independence, MO 64050 4. The separation of powers and federalism, therefore, are a manifestation of the Framers rejection of unchecked government power. 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