Dueling Decisions |
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| Authors: | D Bruce Hicks |
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| Institution: | D. Bruce Hicks is assistant professor of political science at Cumberland College, in Williamsburg, Kentucky, where he moved in fall 1996 from Francis Marion University, in Florence, South Carolina. He holds the BA in political science from Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina, and a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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| Abstract: | In a government of divided powers, the respective roles of the president and Congress in determining American foreign policy often are disputed. Rival Supreme Court decisions on this matter, U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936), and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), were resurrected and argued with renewed vigor following the Iran-contra affair. Despite attempts by the defenders of each decision to discredit or reinterpret the rival case, both decisions stand as reasonable, if incompatible, interpretations of constitutional meaning. |
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