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elleng

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11. Yeh, darn treaties.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2020, 09:43 PM

Jul 2020

The Treaty Clause is part of Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution that empowers the President of the United States to propose and chiefly negotiate agreements between the United States and other countries, which, upon receiving the advice and consent of a two-thirds supermajority vote of the United States Senate, become binding with the force of federal law.

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