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# Can a Treaty Increase the Power of Congress? 

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Date and Time 

June 14, 2013 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

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Featuring **Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz**, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by **Hon. Alex Kozinski**, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; moderated by **Roger Pilon** Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. 

In 1920, in *Missouri v. Holland*, the Supreme Court seemed to say, contrary to basic constitutional principles, that a treaty could increase the legislative power of Congress. That issue is now back before the Court in *Bond v. United States*, a case with deliciously lurid facts involving adultery, revenge, and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Cato has filed [an amicus brief](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uploads/bond_ii_amicus_final_5-15-13.pdf) in the case, written by Nicholas Rosenkranz, based on [his *Harvard Law Review* article](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=747724) on the subject. Please join us for a discussion of this fundamental constitutional question.

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