Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs

Michael D. Ramsey is Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: A Textual Theory of Foreign Affairs Law Part I: Sources of National Power 1. Do Foreign Affairs Powers Come from the Constitution? Curtiss--Wright and the Myth of Inherent Powers 2. Foreign Affairs and the Articles of Confederation: The Constitution in Context Part II: Presidential Power in Foreign Affairs 3. The Steel Seizure Case and the Executive Power over Foreign Affairs 4. Executive Foreign Affairs Power and the Washington Administration 5. Steel Seizure Revisited: The Limits of Executive Power 6. Executive Power and Its Critics Part III: Shared Powers of the Senate 7. The Executive Senate: Treaties and Appointments 8. Goldwater v. Carter: Do Treaties Bind the President? 9. The Non-Treaty Power: Executive Agreements and United States v. Belmont Part IV: Congress's Foreign Affairs Powers 10. Legislative Power in Foreign Affairs: Why NAFTA Is (Sort of) Unconstitutional 11. The Meanings of Declaring War 12. Beyond Declaring War: War Powers of Congress and the President Part V: States and Foreign Affairs 13. Can States Have Foreign Policies? Zschernig v. Miller and the Limits of Framers' Intent 14. States versus the President: The Holocaust Insurance Case 15. Missouri v. Holland and the Seventeenth Amendment Part VI: Courts and Foreign Affairs 16. Judging Foreign Affairs: Goldwater v. Carter Revisited 17. The Paquete Habana: Is International Law Part of Our Law? 18. Courts and Presidents in Foreign Affairs Conclusion: Text as Law in Foreign Affairs Notes Index

The Constitution's Text in Foreign Affairs is impressive. Ramsey defies conventional wisdom that the words of the Constitution do not speak to most contemporary foreign relations law problems, showing instead how these words, as originally understood, can provide a nearly complete answer to fundamental modern questions of foreign relations law. This book is a real contribution to the field.