Excerpt from The Senate and Treaties, 1789-1817, the Development of the Treaty-Making Functions of the United States Senate During Their Formative Period This book is a study in detail Of the treaty making powers of the United States Senate during the formative period of their history. This period is conceived to extend from 1789 to just a little beyond the first twenty-five years of government under the Constitution. No powers of the federal government underwent a more interesting develop ment during this first quarter-century than did those which have to do with the making of treaties. There are good reasons for this. The treaty clause Of the Constitution is so flexible that the exact re lations of the Senate and the exe'ciitive in treaty making could be worked out only in actual practice. And there never has been a period in the history of this nation when foreign relations threats of war, avoidances of armed conflicts, diplomatic defeats and victories, treaties made and denounced have played so vital a part in the affairs of the govern ment and in the lives of the people. The young republic was fixing her status in the family Of nations - finding her level among a jostling throng who regarded her with indifferent, hostile, or designing eyes. Consequently that part of her constitutional organization which concerned treaty - making, and foreign relations generally, was rapidly developed by constant application to the problems of actual government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Holt, W. Stull. Treaties Defeated by the Senate. A Study of the Struggle Between President and Senate Over the Conduct of Foreign Relations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. vi, [1],328 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-39606. ISBN 1-58477-029-5. Cloth. $75. * Beginning with an examination of the Constitutional origin of the conflict between the President and the Senate regarding foreign relations, Holt goes on to discuss the legal and political aspects of U.S. treaty-making from 1789 through the Versailles Treaty in 1919.