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The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11. By John Yoo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 366. Index. $29, cloth; $19, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

David J. Bederman
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Recent Books on International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 490 - 495
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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1 For more on this distinction, see H. Powell, Jefferson, The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 885 (1985)Google Scholar; Vasan Kesavan & Michael Paulsen, Stokes, The Interpretive Force of the Constitution’s Secret Drafting History, 91 Geo. L.J. 1113 (2003)Google Scholar.

2 S. Exec. Rep. NO. 91-9, at 5 (1969) (appendix; statement by J. Edward Lyerly, deputy legal adviser for administration, U.S. Department of State).

3 The question is whether treaties (advised and consented to by two-thirds of the Senate) can be used completely interchangeably with Congressional-Executive Agreements (adopted as ordinary legislation) to implement U.S. international obligations. This debate was framed in such articles as Myres, S. McDougal & Lans, Asher, Treaties and Congressional-Executive or Presidential Agreements: Interchangeable Instruments of National Policy, 54 Yale L.J. 181 (1945)Google Scholar; Ackerman, Bruce & Golove, David, Is NAFTA Constitutional? 108 Harv. L. REV. 799 (1995)Google Scholar; Laurence, H. Tribe, Taking Text and Structure Seriously: Reflections on Free-Form Method in Constitutional Interpretation, 108 Harv. L. Rev. 1221 (1995)Google Scholar.