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Treaties have been used in the past as a way to pass laws regulating the conduct of citizens of the United States, when a similar law wouldn't have made it through the normal legislative process. I therefore think it is important that the House of Representatives, as the branch closest to the people, have some way of nullifying any treaties. I suppose that the treaty-making power in the Constitution could be modified so that it is no different from the passage of any normal law, (majority of both houses concuring, with a Presidental signature), but there may be times when it is useful for the President to be able to quickly get a treaty ratified with 2/3 of the Senate present concurring. The "House of Representatives Treaty Veto" power I have proposed would allow the present process of treaty-ratificatin to go forward uninterrupted, but would give the House of Representative the ability to nullify bad treaties after the fact. Currently, the only way to nulify a bad treaty is to pass another treaty, or to pass a law overriding the treaty. Neither of these is likely in the short-term, since the President and the Senate will not likely agree to pass a law nulifing a treaty they just agreed to, nor will they want to ratify a new treaty.

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