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THE Constitution’s Treaty Clause has long been seen, rightly, as a
bulwark against presidential inclinations to lock the United States into
unwise foreign commitments. The clause will likely be tested by Barack
Obama’s administration, as the new president and Secretary of
State-designate Hillary Clinton, led by the legal academics in whose
circles they have long traveled, contemplate binding down American power
and interests in a dense web of treaties and international
bureaucracies.
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