In the absence of any express words in the Constitution, the power to abrogate treaties should not be attributed to any mere fraction of the Government, as to the President, or to the President and Senate, nor to any branches short of the whole Government embodied in an Act of Congress.
Sumner argues that the power to abrogate treaties should not be assigned to any single branch of government but requires the whole government.
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