The President's recognition authority cannot be exercised in a manner that would nullify the U.S. Senate's authority to advise and consent on the making of a treaty.
Yet until now, with the exception of narcotics, illicit trade has simply not been a priority in international law and treaty making, or in international police work and cooperative law enforcement.
The Amsterdam summit in 1997 introduced Mr Blair to the niceties of EU treaty-making, and was followed soon afterwards by the ghastly four-night negotiation of the Nice treaty in 2000.
But that might require a change to a treaty already making its way through the parliaments of member states.
Still, his highhandedness when it comes to the constitutional responsibility of the Senate to play a real role in treaty-making seems particularly contemptuous, and contemptible.
Sceptics (and there are many) could be forgiven for concluding that the frenzy of treaty-making which followed the Universal Declaration has mocked such continued and widespread suffering.
British Columbia's New Democratic Party government supports the treaty-making process.
The Palestinian Authority has made it abundantly clear that it can never content itself with a ministate on the West Bank and Gaza, surrounded by hostile powers, limited in its control of water resources, airspace, and treaty-making power.
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The result is a now-ratified arms control agreement that poses real risks for U.S. national security and presents a cautionary tale for the Senate to perform its constitutional role with respect to treaty-making very differently in the future.
Unfortunately, the Senate's spotty record in recent decades of taking seriously its role in the treaty-making process has only served to encourage successive executives to settle for bad treaties - and trust that they would not be held accountable for the defects.
In addition to giving the legislature's upper house this direct role in treaty-making, the Framers enshrined in the Constitution a high threshold for such consent: Not just a simple majority but fully two-thirds of the Senate must give their approval for any treaty to be ratified.
Should the Administration remain unwilling to follow such a course, the Center believes the Senate must insist that the emerging U.S.-Soviet bilateral chemical weapons agreement take the form of a treaty so as to safeguard both its prerogatives as a partner in the treaty-making process and the security of the United States.
Senior members of that committee, led by its next chairman, Howard "Buck" McKeon, have decried the fact that - while the House does not have the Senate's unique role in treaty-making - they are being denied the information and time to perform due-diligence associated with a responsibility they do have, namely for implementation of any ratified accord.
We wanted you to know that we stand ready to lend the authority of our experience as ground combat commanders to you, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others in making the case against the clearly defective landmine treaty now taking shape in Oslo.
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Democrats have accused Republicans of making this a political issue, maintaining that the treaty poses no Second Amendment threat.
Some Russians speculate that Putin agreed to the US withdrawal of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty because Moscow had developed countermeasures, making its MIRVed ICBMs invulnerable.
By making a virtue of our vulnerability, the ABM Treaty only reinforces the discredited policy of mutual assured destruction at a time when the U.S. is being targeted by numerous potentially undeterrable rogue states and terrorists.
The third suspect remains at large but Benin has an extradition treaty with Equatorial Guinea and authorities are hopeful of making an arrest, our reporter says.
There are no signs of anyone monitoring the weight ratio or making sure there's no illegal fishing of the five shark species protected under international treaty.
Only by making such a program a pre-existing condition to START II can we prevent that Treaty's adoption from being made a new excuse for Executive Branch inaction on this front -- and a new basis for a Russian veto of vital American defense capabilities.
It is easy to understand why Mr. Webber's organization wants to position itself in the public mind on the side of the arms control angels, but can anyone really suppose the treaty's ratification would prevent a group like that crazed Japanese cult from making or using poison gas?
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Every other EU treaty for the past 25 years has contained the seeds of the next one, making the process seem inexorable.
Such a prospect is all the more alarming insofar as the Senate has just approved a New START Treaty that the Russians say they will remain party to only as long as the United States refrains from making "any quantitative or qualitative improvements" in our missile defenses.
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