[extropy-chat] Question of Constitutional Law

[Joseph Bloch]

Art. I, Sec. 10:

"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of 
Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any 
Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or 
engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as 
will not admit of delay."

Joseph

The Avantguardian wrote:

>I understand that the Constitution gives the President
>the power to make treaties with senate approval. But
>what I want to know is that if there is any explicit
>law in the Constitution or elsewhere that prohibits
>the governors of individual states from signing/making
>treaties with foreign powers? As a completely
>hypothetical example could Schwazeneggar sign the
>Kyoto Treaty and have California abide by it? What
>would be the consequences? Would the federal
>government step in? Would it spark a civil war?    
>
>The Avantguardian 
>is 
>Stuart LaForge
>alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
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