The death of treaty supremacy : an invisible constitutional change / / David L. Sloss [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154281803321
• Autore: Sloss David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 0-19-936404-4; 0-19-936405-2
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 342.730412
• Soggetti: Treaty-making power - United States - States; Federal government - United States; Constitutional law - United States - States; States' rights (American politics) - History; Separation of powers - United States; United States Foreign relations Law and legislation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The origins of Treaty Supremacy : 1776-1787 -- State ratification debates -- Treaty Supremacy in the 1790s -- Foster v. Neilson -- Treaties and state law -- Self-execution in the political branches -- Self-execution in the Federal Courts -- Seeds of change -- Human rights activism in the United States: 1946-1948 -- The nationalists strike back : 1949-1951 -- Fujii, Brown, and Bricker : 1952-1954 -- Business as usual in the courts : 1946-1965 -- The American law institute and the restatement of foreign relations law -- Treaty Supremacy in the twenty-first Century -- Invisible constitutional change.
• Sommario/riassunto: Traditionally, the Constitution's treaty supremacy rule provided that all treaties supersede conflicting state laws. The rule was designed to prevent treaty violations by state governments. From the Founding until World War II, treaty supremacy and self-execution were independent doctrines. Treaty supremacy was an aspect of federal supremacy; it governed the relationship between treaties and state law. Self-execution governed the division of power over treaty implementation ; between Congress and the president. In 1945, the United States ratified the U.N. Charter, which obligates nations to promote 'human rights - for all without distinction as to race.' In 1950, a California court applied the Charter's human rights provisions and the traditional treaty supremacy rule to invalidate a state law that discriminated against Japanese nationals.