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Volume 8, Issue 2.
Summer
Although the U.S. Constitution defines the procedure for the Executive to enter into treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate, it says nothing about how such obligations may be terminated. This open constitutional question, a true conundrum, was directly raised by the Carter Administration's unilateral termination of the United States' ... read moreMutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, upon normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China. Alan M. Wachman explores the constitutional origins of this problem and analyzes the development of the legislative and legal approaches to resolving it which, he contends, have raised as many questions as they have answered about this important issue in the separation of American foreign policy powers.
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