Article One of the United States Constitution prohibits states from making treaties. Article One outlines the legislative branch, and contains 10 sections.
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The US Constitution and the limits it places on federal authority.
The Constitution places extremely heavy and borderline burdensome limits on the legislative and law enforcement powers of the federal government. Since around the turn of the twentieth century these lawful limits have largely been ignored by those in power in the federal government.
no person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and has been 7 Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
The Presidents salary cannot be increased or decreased at any time during his term. This is to ensure that Congress does not use the Presidents salary as a bargaining tool to influence executive decisions. Constitution Article 2 Section1 Clause 7
In the United States, such questions between Congress and the President or as the Constitution refers to them the Legislative and Executive Branch. Are answered by petition to the Judiciary Branch commonly known as the Supreme Court. In the United States Constitution under Article III, Section 2, this is one of the rare places the Supreme Holds original jurisdiction versus appellette jurisidiction