Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
Disputes with foreign policy implications have often been brought to the federal courts. These cases call attention to the tension between the authority of the political branches to conduct the foreign relations of the United States and the authority of the courts to render judgments according to the law. How this tension is resolved, in turn, bears directly on the commitment of the United States to the rule of law.
1 299 U.S. 304, 319–20 (1936).
2 U.S. Const. Art. II, §§1 and 3.
3 343 U.S. 579, 637 (1952) (Jackson, J., concurring).
4 369 U.S. 186 (1962).
5 376 U.S. 398 (1964).
6 453 U.S. 654(1981).
7 175 U.S. 677, 700(1900).
8 See Charney, The Power of the Executive Branch of the United States Government to Violate Customary International Law, 80 AJIL 913 (1986).