Richard Henry Lee, former President of the united States in Congress assembled, using the penname “The Federal Farmer,” publishes an anti-federalist essay, arguing in paragraph six that the treaty making power in the proposed Constitution for the united States will result in eventual abrogation of the State Constitutions:
The president and two-thirds of the senate will be empowered to make treaties indefinitely, and when these treaties shall be made, they will also abolish all laws and state constitutions incompatible with them. This power in the president and senate is absolute, and the judges will be bound to allow full force to whatever rule, article or thing the president and senate shall establish by treaty. …
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References:
Murray Dry, The Anti-Federalist: An abridgement, from The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing, ed., (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 54, 56.
Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, published during its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788 – Online Library of Liberty
oll.libertyfund.org/titles/ford-pamphlets-on-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-1787-1788/simple
The Prophetic Antifederalists | Mises Institute
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