May 19, 2015 --

LPR thanks United States Senator Tom Cotton (R. Ark.) for standing tall in support of the treaty power given to the Senate by the Constitution. Unfortunately, Senator Cotton was the sole member of the United States Senate to demand, in effect, that President Obama submit his "Iran deal" to the Senate for approval as a treaty. Ninety-eight senators voted to turn the treaty power upside down.

The Constitution put the burden on the president to get approval for ratifying a treaty from requires two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. The 98-1 vote on the process to approve the Iran deal (Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-Ca., was absent) puts the burden on the Senate to reject the Iran deal by two-thirds of the Senate.

Previously, the House of Representatives gave up its constitutional power over the purse to restrain an overbearing president -- or senate. Abandonment by the Senate of its treaty power means that another of the checks and balances placed by the Framers in the Constitution to protect the people from an Imperial President has annulled.

Perhaps the Republican leaders in Congress fear adverse publicity from a hostile media far more than they honor their constitutional obligation to protect the Republic from a tyrannical president. By ceding power to the president, House Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader McConnell will not have to respond to media accusations that they have shutdown government. By keeping an imperial president functioning, quite smoothly. they merely have spat on the member of our Founding Fathers.

LPR will not be surprised to learn of an editorial from a leading leftist newspaper denouncing as "hate speech" the rationale in Federalist No. 75 for requiring that the president obtain Senate ratification for treaties. LPR invites clicksters to read Federalist No. 75.