We need the Bricker Amendment to protect the constitution from a president who'll bypass it with treaties

[basquebromance]

ah, the Bricker Amendment. It needs to be dusted off and reintroduced as soon as it has a snowball's chance of passing. we currently have one world government with the United Nations in fact if not in name. we can do better, my friends

The Bricker Amendment and Authority over Foreign Affairs

ON June 15, 1953, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary favorably reported to the Senate by a vote of nine to five a constitutional amendment which would provide the legal basis for radically altering the present division of powers between the legislative and executive branches of the Federal...

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[kyzr]

No thanks. That doesn't have any chance of becoming an Amendment.

Bricker Amendment - Wikipedia

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[multivita-man]

Edit: Senate has to ratify treaties. If a treaty is so out of step with our constitution, I'm guessing courts could step in, no? Also, House sets appropriations, so any support for a treaty or an agreement would need their continued support, too. Lack of appropriations support by the GOP is one reason why Bubba's nuclear framework with North Korea fell apart in the 1990s.