Marx on free trade

[Brad De Long]

>Yeah, well the Steelworkers lawsuit against NAFTA said that NAFTA is a treaty
>and was passed into law without a 2/3 majority vote in the Senate.

That has always seemed to me to be a very good point: the 
constitution doesn't know about executive agreements, and treaties 
have a 2/3 majority requirement for a reason...

The post-WWII slide from treaties to "executive agreements" has 
always seemed to me to be one of the common-law constitutional 
amendments that has the least going for it...

Brad DeLong