Under our Constitution, regulations of commerce come into existence by Congress authoring a bill to regulate commerce, debating that bill, amending that bill to accommodate the various state interests and the interests of the people of the United States, and then sending that Bill to the president for his signature or veto. This is how our representative system of government works. Fast Track Trade Authority allows the president to usurp Congress' legislative powers in creating a bill to regulate commerce, and leaves Congress with the President's veto power. And this my friend is not authorized by our written Constitution. Keep in mind that all legislative powers are vested in a Congress of the United States.
Additionally, all bills for raising revenue are to originate in the House of Representatives. Therefore, any trade rules made which affect imposts and duties on imports from foreign nations, which is what the Pacific Rim deal does, must originate in the House of Representatives and not in the Oval Office.
Fast Track Trade Authority is a blatant attack upon our representative system of government, allows the president to usurp Congress' exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and violates the separation of powers which our founders wrote into our Constitution!
Do you support this attack upon our constitutionally limited system of government?
JWK
"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law (1858)
So now you seem to recognize that trade agreements fall under congress’s authority to regulate foreign trade which it does through legislation rather than through ratification of treaties.