The Constitution has expressly lodged the war-making power in Congress, and, in doing so, seems by implication to have placed the treaty-abrogating power in the same body; for the latter seems to be an incident of the former.
Sumner asserts that the Constitution places the treaty-abrogating power in Congress by implication, as it does with the war-making power.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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