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The United States has never before considered itself bound by international law to accept as its treaty partner the successor to an extinct State.
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No judicial decision contradicts the scholarly view that a non-dispositive bilateral treaty of an extinct State does not automatically become a treaty of its successor or successors.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Senate testimony of Douglas Feith and George Miron on ABM treaties and international law
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The President cannot, without Senate approval, bring a lapsed treaty back to life by declaring that a given foreign State is the successor or continuation of an extinct State.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Senate testimony of Douglas Feith and George Miron on ABM treaties and international law
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In other words, the President cannot, without Senate approval, bring a lapsed treaty back to life by declaring that a given foreign State is the successor or continuation of an extinct State.
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If a foreign State ceases to exist under international law and, consequently, a bilateral treaty between the extinct State and the United States lapses, the President cannot use the "receive Ambassadors" clause to bring a new treaty into force between the United States and a successor to the extinct State without Senate advice and consent.
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With consistency over more than a hundred years, scholarly writings state that when a State ceases to exist (becomes "extinct"), that State's treaties have no further effect.
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The extinction of the personality of a state results traditionally in an abrogation of all political and military treaties concluded between the now extinct entity and other states.
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On our first day on Maui, we took a ship-organised excursion to the steepling gorge of Iao Valley State Park, where misty wisps of cloud leant a volcanic air to the long-extinct peaks.
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