Now nothing can be clearer than that this provision, introduced on the authority of the President alone, was beyond his powers, and therefore brutum fulmen, a mere wooden gun, until after the ratification of the treaty.
Sumner argues that a provision introduced by the President alone was beyond his authority until ratified, emphasizing constitutional limits.
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