Why Sovereignty Matters

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. xi, [1], 159, [5] p. Notes This is one of the AEI Studies on Global Environmental Policy. Sovereign nations submit their domestic policies to international agreements and supranational institutions. This text warns that international regulation could distort the US constitutional system, and argues for reviving the traditional American view on international agreements and treaties. This book is an argument for reviving the traditional American view on the proper role of international commitments. The Framers considered that there were limites on what mattera a treaty could address, and what questions the law of nationals could settle. One of the centeral problems with international commitments is that they tend to transfer decisionmaking power away from the visible anda ccountable froums into the hand of foreign policy specialists in the executive branch. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.