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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE. THE 2016 WAKE-UP CALL -- INTRODUCTION. THE POLITIQUAKE THAT IS RESHAPING AMERICAN POLITICS -- CHAPTER 1. NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE EXPANDING DIVIDE IN OUR NATION'S SPLIT PERSONALITY -- CHAPTER 2. DEMOGRAPHICS: THE CURRENT AND EMERGING STATUS OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC TENSIONS -- CHAPTER 3. ISSUES: THE IMPORTANCE OF POLICY AND PRINCIPLES -- CHAPTER 4. EMPOWERMENT: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF OUR POLITICAL PROCESS -- CHAPTER 5. MEDIA: THE BATTLE FOR TRUTH AND FACTS -- CHAPTER 6. CONDUCT: THE ERA OF INCREASED TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- CHAPTER 7. GLOBAL ECONOMY: THE EVOLVING CONCERNS OVER TRADE AND GLOBALIZATION -- CHAPTER 8. FEDERALISM: THE TENSION BETWEEN FEDERAL AND STATE AUTHORITY -- CHAPTER 9. BIPARTISANSHIP: THE CONCURRENT RISE OF PARTISANSHIP AND BIPARTISANSHIP -- CHAPTER 10. VOTER SHIFTS: EXPOSURE OF THE REAL TRUMP AND THE IMPACT ON KEY TRUMP VOTERS -- AFTERWORD. A MESSAGE TO FELLOW PATRIOTS WHO SUPPORT TRUMP -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- LIST OF TERMS AND ENTITIES.

The law of nations and the Constitution -- The law merchant and the Constitution -- The law of state-state relations and the Constitution -- The law of state-state relations in federal courts -- The law maritime and the Constitution -- Modern customary international law -- The inadequacy of existing theories of customary -- Judicial enforcement of customary international law against foreign nations -- Judicial enforcement of customary international law against the United States -- Judicial enforcement of customary international law against U.S. states

The Law of Nations and the United States Constitution offers a new lens through which anyone interested in constitutional governance in the United States should analyze the role and status of customary international law in U.S. courts. The book explains that the law of nations has not interacted with the Constitution in any single overarching way. Rather, the Constitution was designed to interact in distinct ways with each of the three traditional branches of the law of nations that existed when it was adopted-namely, the law merchant, the law of state-state relations, and the law maritime.