Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word treaty-making.

Examples

  • before his second-term treaty-making with the Soviets, Reagan's pragmatism had riled the self-appointed keepers of the right-wing flame.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The Founding Fathers saw the treaty-making power as executive, not legislative power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit 2010

  • In it, Eisenhower had asserted that “it would be a tragic error to adopt any amendment which would change our traditional treaty-making power or which would hamper the President in his constitutional responsibility to conduct foreign affairs.”

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • In it, Eisenhower had asserted that “it would be a tragic error to adopt any amendment which would change our traditional treaty-making power or which would hamper the President in his constitutional responsibility to conduct foreign affairs.”

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • The Founding Fathers saw the treaty-making power as executive, not legislative power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit 2010

  • Allen attacked it as inappropriate because it presumed to advise the president on how he should exercise his treaty-making power, which the Senate had no jurisdiction to do.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Allen attacked it as inappropriate because it presumed to advise the president on how he should exercise his treaty-making power, which the Senate had no jurisdiction to do.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • In 1998, for example, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and effectively confirmed its role as quality control for treaty-making.

    The New Start Treaty: Time for a Careful Look 2010

  • In the end, concern for Southern trade and fear of federal treaty-making power—and, ultimately, of losing access to the Mississippi—weighed more heavily on the opposition than fear of a possible abolition-minded federal Congress.15

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Some of this treaty-making was pure hypocrisy; some of it, as in the case of Texas Indian agent Robert Neighbors, was earnest and well-meaning naïveté.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.