Is NAFTA Constitutional?

by Bruce A. Ackerman and David Golove

Book Overview

By a vote of 61 to 38, the Senate joined the House in declaring that "Congress approves...the North American Free Trade Agreement." The vote was virtually unnoticed, since the real battle over NAFTA was in the House. But there is a puzzle here. The President, the Framers assure us, "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur." Whatever happened to the Treaty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674187741
• ISBN13: 9780674187740
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"