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The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change

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The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change - Sloss, David L
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This book provides the first detailed history of the Constitution's treaty supremacy rule. It describes a process of invisible constitutional change. The traditional supremacy rule provided that all treaties supersede conflicting state laws; it precluded state governments from violating U.S. treaty obligations. Before 1945, treaty supremacy and self-execution were independent doctrines. Supremacy governed the relationship between treaties and state law. Self-execution governed the division of power over treaty ...

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The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change 2016, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199364022

Hardcover