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Customary Practice And The People's Voice: Separation Of Powers And Foreign Affairs, Harold G. Maier
Customary Practice And The People's Voice: Separation Of Powers And Foreign Affairs, Harold G. Maier
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
CONSTITUTIONALISM, DEMOCRACY, AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
By Louis Henkin
New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. viii, 125
This short book brings to bear Professor Henkin's vast experience as a teacher and scholar in United States foreign relations law on a contemporary examination of constitutional separation of powers principles in determining the appropriate roles of the three federal governmental branches in the conduct of foreign affairs. In this context, the author asks, "Is our two-hundred year old constitution satisfactory for its third century?" After an excursion through the principal issues most germane to an answer, he concludes that "there is no …