POLS 375 Lecture Notes - International Monetary Fund, Cuban Missile Crisis, United States Dollar
19 Jan 2013
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The president of the united states is not powerful enough. Our biggest foreign policy issue with the u. s. is that the president is now powerful enough. The u. s. senate must ratify a treaty with 2/3 of approval . The president of the united states can promise a lot but does not have the power. It"s not just congress that you run into issues with . Again, our biggest problem is that power is diffused throughout the american system and the president does not have power. As such, it is difficult to deal with americans. People within the government and in congress were against free trade. The u. s. government had to take this into consideration. Party unity exists (less in britain, but more than the united states). One of our biggest problems when we forget it"s more than the relationship between two executives you"d have to get governors, etc. , on board.
