Control of U.S. Foreign Policy
Presidential Power and Congressional Influence
The Constitution divides the foreign policy powers between the President and Congress in a less than definitive manner. In The President, Office and Powers, 1787–1957 (1957), Edward S. Corwin wrote: What the Constitution does, and all that it does, is to confer on the President certain powers capable of affecting our foreign relations, and certain other powers of the same general kind on the Senate, and still other such powers on Congress; but which of these organs shall have the decisive and final voice in determining the course of the American nation is left for events to resolve. …
