The chief authority would be the President of the United States. Section 1 would make it impossible for the United States to join a world or regional government by treaty or by executive agreement. It writes into the Constitution the following statement by the Supreme Court in the Chinese exclusion cases: The powers of government are delegated in trust to the United States. and are incapable of transfer to any other parties. They cannot be abandoned or surrendered. * * * The exercise of these public trusts is not the subject of barter or contract. That is what we want to put into the Constitution. because that principle has been reversed since that time.
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