The Senate
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Agreements that the president enters into that do not require the consent of the Senate are called executive agreements.
Wilson ordered the democrats to vote " nay" for a version of the treaty requiring a joint resolution from the House and the senate to join the League of Nations. :)
The Senate has the right of ratification.
The Senate
The US senate rejected joining the League of nations
Because there was no enforcement capability if a nation was sanctioned.
the senate would not sign the treaty due to the fact the u.s. would have to join the league of nations (before UN) Joining the league of nations could involve the U.S. in European affairs. The U.S. would become isolationists till WW2
When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the Senate to pass a resolution authorizing the President, at his discretion, to embargo arms shipments to aggressor nations, the Senate decided to amend the requested resolution. The Senate believed that if a president embargoed arms to an aggressor nation, it might involve the US in a war. The Senate therefore amended the resolution to embargo all nations should a dispute arise among both friendly and aggressive nations. This was a blow to his pledge to help the League of Nations.
Although US President Woodrow Wilson had joined with other world leaders in the proposal to create the League of Nations, he had not carefully gaged American opinion on the matter. The US Senate rejected the idea of joining and most Americans agreed with that decision. The Senate and many Americans sought a more isolationist path to foreign policy.
He refused to compromise on his idea for the League of Nations.
Many people opposed it, most world nations approved the plan. The US Senate rejected it twice and on one occasion, the US Senate's revisions to the League's charter was rejected by President Lincoln.
The US didn't want to get caught up in European affairs that had nothing to do with them again.
He refused to compromise on his idea for the League of Nations.
He refused to compromise on his idea for the League of Nations.
He refused to compromise on his idea for the League of Nations.