U.S. Constitution - On Presidential guarantees

IMRA ^ | April 14, 2004

[yonif]

Article II

...Section 2. The President ...

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur...

www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleii.html

[yonif]

Ping.

[jamaksin]

Lest we forget ... also contained within the United States Constitution is found ...

Article I ... Section 8 ... The Congress should have the power ... To declare War, ...

N.B., The last time Congress declared war was upon the United States entry into World War II after the Japanese attack on elements of the United States Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, the Terrority of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

[Of course, any verbiage regarding impeachment should now be removed as a demonstrated non sequitur from that document.]

[inquest]

Now, the question is, Does he have the power to send multiple treaties to the Senate at once, and have them vote on the entire package in a single vote, as was done during Clinton's presidency with that package of 34 treaties? It seems to me that's akin to the H.R. voting on 34 separate pieces of legislation, with 34 separate votes, sending them over to the Senate, and having them approve all 34 bills in one vote.

Doesn't seem constitutional to me.

[dvwjr]

Originally posted by jamaksin:

N.B., The last time Congress declared war was upon the United States entry into World War II after the Japanese attack on elements of the United States Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, the Terrority of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

Well, no. The last time that the Congress "officially" declared War was on June 5th, 1942 against the nation of Romania. That was the 77th Congress, Public Law 565.

dvwjr

[jamaksin]

Thank you ... I stand corrected.