[Erik Latranyi]

The reason we have these congressional-executive agreements in the first place is the nearly universal acknowledgment that you won't get an agreement without them.

Yeah, amending the Constitution is too difficult as well. Let's just write a work-around so we can pass laws that are blatantly unconstitutional.

Oh, we've done that with the commerce clause already.

[jjotto]

Congress - Executive agreements go back to 1790, when the authors of the Constitution were very much alive.

[semimojo]

Yeah, amending the Constitution is too difficult as well. Let's just write a work-around so we can pass laws that are blatantly unconstitutional.

I've posted a lot of support for the fact that these agreements have consistently been held to be constitutional. What is your argument which says that they aren't? That the federal government can't legislate anything to do with foreign relations? It can only be by treaty?

Maybe I just don't understand your position.