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Bond v. United States and Congress’s Role in Implementing Treaties

Part of: Agora: Bond v. United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William S. Dodge
William S. Dodge*
Affiliation:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
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Bond v. United States had long been anticipated as the case in which the Supreme Court would revisit Missouri v. Holland (1920) and limit Congress’s authority to implement treaties. In the event, the Court did nothing of the kind. Only three Justices would have recognized judicially enforceable limits on the Treaty Power (Thomas, joined by Scalia and Alito, concurring in the judgment), and only two would have adopted the crabbed reading of the Necessary and Proper Clause advocated by Professor Nicholas Rosenkranz (Scalia, joined by Thomas, concurring in the judgment).

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Agora: Bond v. United States
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 86 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 Bond v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 2077 (2014).

2 Rosenkranz, Nicholas Quinn, Executing the Treaty Power, 118 Harv. L. Rev. 1867 (2005)Google Scholar.

3 Bond, 134 S.Ct. at 2083.

4 Id.

5 Id. at 2092-2093.

6 Id. at 2090.

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11 Bond, 134 S.Ct. at 2089 (quoting Bass, 404 U.S. 336, 349 (1971)).

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13 Bond, 134 S.Ct. at 2088.

14 Id. at 2092.

15 Id.

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