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Here's how the US Constitution works: the Executive is solely responsible for negotiating and signing international treaties and trade deals with no input from
by bregma 3y ago
Here's how the US Constitution works: the Executive is solely responsible for negotiating and signing international treaties and trade deals with no input from Congress or the Judiciary. Once signed, a treaty or trade deal is a piece of paper with no value.
Once a trade deal has been made by the Executive, Congress needs to introduce and pass legislation to implement the deal. They may choose to implement it as is, or more likely make all kinds of changes and implement something completely different. Once Congress has passed an implementation bill into law, the Executive develops all the rules and regulations associated with it and actually implements it, including enforcement bodies and committees to determine if the treaty or trade deal has been violated.
Then it's up to the Judicial branch to determine if the laws passed by Congress are valid or not, in terms of other laws and precedents, when asked.
So don't go off on some internet-based conspiracy rant that regular constitutional operations are trying to subvert Your Freedoms. Read opinion pieces on the internet in the context of knowledge and actual fact and in the spirit of click draws and eyeball sales.
- ororroro 3y agoExecutive agreements (agreements made in the absence of the Senate) are not mentioned in the Constitution, but they are considered binding U.S. international agreements under Supreme Court case law and as a matter of historical practice.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoWhat about the Iran Deal? Wasn't that an executive agreement made without the Senate, and wasn't that immidiately scrapped once Trump came into power?
- ororroro 3y agoNot familiar with the details but I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Nuclear_Agreement_Review_Act_of_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Nuclear_Agreement_Review_... provided a loophole. An excellent example of why people scramble for opinion pieces rather than just checking the constitution.
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- edgyquant 3y agoWhat case? This seems unconstitutional no? Congress ratified treaties
- edgyquant 3y ago> the Executive is solely responsible for negotiating and signing international treaties and trade deals with no input from Congress or the Judiciary Wait what? This is completely wrong. The Legislative branch ratifies treaties according to the constitution.
- verall 3y ago> Once signed, a treaty or trade deal is a piece of paper with no value. > Once a trade deal has been made by the Executive, Congress needs to introduce and pass legislation to implement the deal. The ratification part