Stand up, stand up. You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to this special edition of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, I'm Steve Scrovan.

In this series, Ralph and constitutional scholar Bruce Fine will lay out articles in the

impeachment of President Donald J. Trump.

Count 10, violation of the treaty clause.

Why did the founders

Bruce Fine put the treaty clause as they did in the Constitution?

Well, the framers were very suspicious of the loyalty of

the executive to the nation.

They had witnessed, for example, British Kings, basically selling their offices in order to

form alliances at one time with the Dutch or other times with the French and they had a great distrust of the King George

the third who had the authority to make a treaty on his own.

Ruoca treaty on his own and Alexander Hamilton explains the treaty cause in Federal 69 and he says no a

president is it cannot be trusted in international affairs with being loyal to the United States, not selling out the national

interest to benefit himself personally.

Therefore, we need the Senate to have a direct and required involvement. Two-thirds vote in the Senate to have a direct and required involvement.

Two-thirds vote in the Senate needed to ratify treaties.

Now it is true the Constitution is silent

on whether or not to revoke a treaty a president needs Senate consent.

But when you stand back and say, well, the distrust of the president in international affairs,

again, selling out the country in order to aid himself personally, that would apply equally with the decision to revoke a treaty as to make it.

They have equal consequences for the country.

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